School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Cúil Dabhcha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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- (continued from previous page)then put it into a silk stocking and tie it around your mouth.(b) from: - D. McKinny, Bunagee, CuldaffTo put paper or cotton wool in the hole of the tooth with iodine on it and keep out the air.(c) To fill your mouth with "Foyle water" and keep it in as long as you can.
- Fill your mouth with water and a little "castor" oil and sit on the fender until the water boils and the toothache will go away.
- (a) To take a black snail and rub it on the warts then tie a string on it and tie it to a tree and as the snail dies the wart goes away. (b) Take a potato and cut it in eight shares and hide the bits where no one will get them and as they rot the wart will go away.
- Collector
- B. Philomena Deeny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bun an Phobail, Co. Dhún na nGall
- When a funeral is passing anybody who has warts should throw clay after the funeral(continues on next page)