School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16739)
- Location:
- Inis Córthaidh, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: An Br. M.N. Mac Oireachtaigh
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- 238(vi) Another cure for a wart is to get a straw and rub it on the wart nine times the sign of the Cross. Then bury the straw and when the straw decays the wart also decays.Written by S. Mac Eanraic
Received from : Mrs. Hendrick
Address : 17 Duffry St.
Age : 70.
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- Thomas Connolly
- Gender
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- Address
- Droim Guail, Co. Loch Garman
- (viii) For warts a cure is to rub them for nine mornings with washing soda.viiii Another cure for a wart is a drop of ink placed on the wart each night for nine nights and the wart withers away.
Written by Felix Murphy
