School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Baile Riobaird, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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- 1. Look for an ash tree with a hole full of water. Wash your hands in the water, and the warts disappear.2. Get up early in the morning and get a black snail, and rub him on the warts. Stick him on to a thorny Bush and leave him there. When the snail dies the warts will disappear. Cure for a thorn in your finger
If you get a thorn in your finger, take it out with a needle. Chew the top of , and point it together sore finger . Trow it lover your left hand, and this will prevent your finger, from festering. Michael Lambert,
.Robertson. N.S.
Naas,
Co Kildare.
Aged 12 years- Collector
- Michael Lambe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12