Abstract
The Schools’ Scheme was a systematic national survey of folklore conducted in the Republic of Ireland in 1937–38 and is now part of the National Folklore Collection (NFC) at University College Dublin. Medical folklore and the curative powers of holy wells were prominent in the Schools’ Scheme, and in the ensuing Schools’ Collection (NFCS). A representative sample of cures from the NFCS was examined in this study, which included a total of 6,843 separate cures for various ailments. This article focuses specifically on wart cures—by far the most common ailment nationally for which a cure was collected. There are 749 separate wart cures, coming from every county in the Republic of Ireland.
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