School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tíne, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0053, Page 0047
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- (continued from previous page)mouth, then the toothache would go. A child that would be born after his father’s death could cure wildfire by putting their spits on the ground and making the sign of the cross on the spots of wildfire with the spits. There are a great many cures for warts. If you were walking a road or field and see a Greek stone with water in the middle of it and if you made the sign of the cross on the warts with the water, they would go. There was another cure for warts if you went into a neighbor’s house and stole a piece of bacon and rubbed the bacon to the warts, then went out and stuck the bacon in the manure, the warts would go.Mary Kelly, Pallas, Tynagh
Information got from Thomas Kelly, Pallas, Tynagh
Age 45 years
- Collector
- Mary Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Phailís, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Informant
- Thomas Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- An Phailís, Co. na Gaillimhe
