School: Kildraught (2)
- Location:
- Cill Droichid, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: E. Ní Armhultaigh
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- 1. Fill a bag with stones (same number as warts). Go to a Cross Roads, swing bag three times round head and let go. Warts will vanish but whoever finds the bag will get them instead.
2. The white juice of a dock removes warts
3. Rub a snail on them
4. Rub a dandelion juice on warts
5. Rub over each morning with the milk out of a wart weed
6. Rub washing soda on warts
7. Rub caustic stick on them
8. Get a raw potato and rub it on them.
9. To get a black snail and rub it on the wart and pin it to the wall, when the snail is withering the wart is withering
10. Forge water is good for warts.
11. To tie horse hair round the wart - 3. Rub a snail on them.4. Rub a dandelion juice on warts (Mrs Cassidy, Newcastle Lyons).
- 5. Rub over each morning with the milk out of a wart weed ( Mrs Anderson, Celbridge).
- 6. Rub washing soda on warts ( Mrs Wing, Celbridge).
- 7. Rub caustic stick on them ( Mrs Anderson, Celbridge).8. Get a raw potato and rub it them.
- 9. To get a black snail and rub it to the wart and pin it to the wall when the snail is withering the wart is withering Mrs Cochrane, heard in Cavan 20 yrs ago ).10. Forge water is good for warts.11. To tie horse hair round the wart.
- Informant
- Mrs Cochrane
- Gender
- Female