Soolatüügaste ravi iiri rahvameditsiinis Mayo maakonna materjalide näitel
Cures for Warts in the Irish Folk Medicine on the Materials of Country Mayo

Summary/Abstract: While trying to locate the material on folk cures for warts in both the Irish as well as in the English language, Country Mayo proved to be a good choice from a number of counties in the Schools' Manuscripts in the Archive of the Department of Irish Folklore. As Mayo is one of the biggest bilingual counties, there was a large and representative material corpus recorded from there on the topic. It appears from the archive texts that warts were seen as something tedious and widespread but definitely curable, for which a wide variety of remedies were used, from snail to water, from potatoes to charms etc. The texts imply that the remedies worked if one really believed in the remedy. There is a certain pattern one must follow, certain actions to be performed and there is always the suggestion reflecting from behind the words to really believe in what one is doing. It surprised me how versatile one particular area in folk medicine can be. Although the current topic was limited to a certain county and narrowed down to only one ailment and its remedies and most of the material coincided, there were still little things that kept coming up and widening the range of the remedies.

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