Load of balls? Only for simpletons?
This wife's hairdresser told her to treat a wart on the young fellas hand by cutting a potato into quarters, rubbing the potato on the wart, driving to a crossroads and then throwing each quarter up each road at the crossroads. :o
I think we'll just get it burned off at the surgery!
A relative of ours did that to me once. Cut the spud in half, rub it
on the warts and bury it. Seemed to work. Not sure how long after like , but they did disappear.
So I dunno, might be something in it
7th son of a 7th son. Laugh away but they work.
Quote from: Armagh18 on January 08, 2024, 10:48:24 PM7th son of a 7th son. Laugh away but they work.
Would they get Armagh to win Ulster or are you saying McGeeney is a 7th son of a 7th sin?
Quote from: Tony Baloney on January 08, 2024, 10:42:01 PMLoad of balls? Only for simpletons?
This wife's hairdresser told her to treat a wart on the young fellas hand by cutting a potato into quarters, rubbing the potato on the wart, driving to a crossroads and then throwing each quarter up each road at the crossroads. :o
I think we'll just get it burned off at the surgery!
Had this cure put on me for warts when I was 11 or 12 I think. Had to put them in a brown paper bag and throw them over my sholder into a field somewhere where I was most likely not destined to retravel again.
EDIT: It wasn't just anyone could do it, had to go to a lady for the cure.
Heap of shite, ended up having them frozen/burned off by the GP
Any good cures out there for baldness?
I hear if you walk out during a full moon in the rain, and...
Nah, I just can't.
Warts - I just ate mine. Never did me any harm 🤔🥴🥴😜
The credence this nonsense gets baffles me. There's a lot of people who would fall out with you to for pointing out the nonsense. I think Armagh City is a hotbed for it as well.
Load of superstitious woo-woo boll**x.
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Quote from: bennydorano on January 08, 2024, 11:33:21 PMThe credence this nonsense gets baffles me. There's a lot of people who would fall our with you for pointing out the nonsense. I think Armagh City is a hotbed for it as well.
This was Armagh.
I had Shingles as a kid, my dad brought me to some faith healer to cure them.
No doubt they would have went away on their own but sure he was only doing what he thought was right.
Quote from: Itchy on January 08, 2024, 10:53:32 PMQuote from: Armagh18 on January 08, 2024, 10:48:24 PM7th son of a 7th son. Laugh away but they work.
Would they get Armagh to win Ulster or are you saying McGeeney is a 7th son of a 7th sin?
Alright they work they ain't magic!!
We used to live in India and we had a driver. One day he told me that his son had chicken pox. So I asked him if he was going to bring him to the doctor.
No. The cure was to eat a lentil day and do a puja to the Goddess Durga at the Temple for 50 rupees. If you don't do the puja the chicken pox cannot be cured.
The guy at the Temple told him that the puja would cure the chicken pox in 10 days. It goes away anyway after a week.
When i was about 9 years old i had maybe 8 or 9 warts, across both my hands. A couple of real stubborn ones, and various smaller newer ones. I had been to the GP and been applying salytic acid type creams on them for a good while without success
Anyhow my mum took me to see an elderly lady who had the cure for warts. I had to bring a potatoe with me and go into her house alone. I was warned not to say thank you. The lady cut the potatoe into pieces and said a prayer and placed the potatoe into a napkin. I was out of her house within a minute, she told me to bury the potatoe, which i did in my own back garden. Honestly the warts were gone within a fortnight. They started to shrink within a couple of days, the colour changed, and gradually the skin just sort of flaked off
Id be very sceptical about faith healers, but i can only describe my own experience. It definitely worked.
Just a bit weird these people sent down to us chose to use their skills on warts rather than say cancer, MS etc etc
Two stories on faith healers, or cures, sty in the eye, woke of with this one morning few years ago, went to work and the lad I was working with said he knew a cure and he rubbed his wedding ring around the sty and I shit you not it was gone by the end of the day!
The other story is one on faith healers, and it was around the time my day had cancer and was chatting to a client of mine who had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and given 6 months to live, so before he did any treatment he went to see a healer in Mayo, now don't get me wrong I think its a load of crap, but this is his story, he'd no reason to lie and I've seen him often over the past few years and seems a genuine fella.
So he went to the healer, the healer said that he mustn't take any treatment, chemo or radiation therapy before he does his thing, the guy run his hand over the area of the cancer and he says that will have reduced the cancer, go for a scan and see what they say, fella goes and right enough the scan reveals its lessened the amount of cancer they had seen initially, goes back again few weeks later, the healer again runs his hand over him and says that its nearly done and one more visit should do it.
Comes back few weeks later and again carries out his thing and said to him to go have the scan now as there is nothing there anymore. Right enough the fella heads back to the City hospital and the scan revealed that there was no cancer! Of course the patient has been telling the consultants the whole time that he was seeing a healer.
They had no answers, that was 20 years ago, the guy was as skeptical as the next person, but given that he had 6 months to live he had nothing to lose.
So who knows, a poor diagnoses or the healer did his job!
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on January 09, 2024, 09:08:59 AMJust a bit weird these people sent down to us chose to use their skills on warts rather than say cancer, MS etc etc
she had the cure for warts. nothing else.
Quote from: God14 on January 09, 2024, 09:29:04 AMQuote from: quit yo jibbajabba on January 09, 2024, 09:08:59 AMJust a bit weird these people sent down to us chose to use their skills on warts rather than say cancer, MS etc etc
she had the cure for warts. nothing else.
Ah wasn't having a go at you, just in general. It appears MR2 has proven me wrong anyways 😀
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on January 09, 2024, 09:50:58 AMQuote from: God14 on January 09, 2024, 09:29:04 AMQuote from: quit yo jibbajabba on January 09, 2024, 09:08:59 AMJust a bit weird these people sent down to us chose to use their skills on warts rather than say cancer, MS etc etc
she had the cure for warts. nothing else.
Ah wasn't having a go at you, just in general. It appears MR2 has proven me wrong anyways 😀
It's a MIRACLE!
The cures I witnessed involved wearing some boys sweaty shirt that he hadn't changed in days and rubbing spit into a lamb that was almost already dead!
Hard to believe in any of it.
With all the talk of warts we should be on the lookout for witches
Quote from: Tony Baloney on January 09, 2024, 10:19:14 AMQuote from: quit yo jibbajabba on January 09, 2024, 09:50:58 AMQuote from: God14 on January 09, 2024, 09:29:04 AMQuote from: quit yo jibbajabba on January 09, 2024, 09:08:59 AMJust a bit weird these people sent down to us chose to use their skills on warts rather than say cancer, MS etc etc
she had the cure for warts. nothing else.
Ah wasn't having a go at you, just in general. It appears MR2 has proven me wrong anyways 😀
It's a MIRACLE!
Gona be a long year if this keeps up Tony 😜
I remember having an envelope full of soil put under my pillow as a child because it was supposed to cure short sightedness. It came from the grave of some Saint I think.
Decades later I'm still blind without contact lenses.
Tyrone people are mad for this stuff though. It's mental. I had an ex (who had a degree in the healthcare field) argue black and blue that this crap worked. And would fall out with anyone that disagreed. Her whole family were the same though.
Any successes are probably a mixture of of would have gotten better anyway and in some cases helped along with the placebo effect.
Quote from: ThomasMullan on January 09, 2024, 12:54:33 PMAny successes are probably a mixture of of would have gotten better anyway and in some cases helped along with the placebo effect.
Exactly, anytime its "worked" it's always been a self limiting minor ailment that would usually resolve itself anyway (eg. cough).
Quote from: RedHand88 on January 09, 2024, 01:05:08 PMQuote from: ThomasMullan on January 09, 2024, 12:54:33 PMAny successes are probably a mixture of of would have gotten better anyway and in some cases helped along with the placebo effect.
Exactly, anytime its "worked" it's always been a self limiting minor ailment that would usually resolve itself anyway (eg. cough).
Warts are caused by a virus and they can go away all of a sudden so it can be easily put down to something like a cure. My father went to get cure for sciatica in his 20s and said it worked - hard to argue with someone's reasoning.
I'm maybe a bit sceptical because a man with a cure local to here was accused of child abuse. Dirty aul c**t. I was taken to him for a cure for psorasis and it made no difference.
One thing back on him was you couldn't pay him because that broke the charm, same as saying thankyou. There's a few now taking a fair few pound for a charm.
Quote from: RedHand88 on January 09, 2024, 11:41:26 AMI remember having an envelope full of soil put under my pillow as a child because it was supposed to cure short sightedness. It came from the grave of some Saint I think.
Decades later I'm still blind without contact lenses.
That's because all the real soil on the grave of the saint was dug up years ago!
Some ailments may be psychological or misdiagnosed by doctors. Industrial medicine doesn't cover everything.
I'll just throw this up here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46651702.amp
Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 09, 2024, 04:02:02 PMI'll just throw this up here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46651702.amp
https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/bls-student-blog/2021/02/01/ancient-irish-soil-contains-powerful-superbug-antibiotic-georgia-gray/
Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 09, 2024, 04:02:02 PMI'll just throw this up here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46651702.amp
Not a faith healers cure but a natural remedy...
Quote from: seafoid on January 09, 2024, 03:47:17 PMSome ailments may be psychological or misdiagnosed by doctors. Industrial medicine doesn't cover everything.
I'd expect a better result on a wart using liquid nitrogen than throwing a spud up a crossroads or burying it in the garden.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on January 09, 2024, 06:56:26 PMQuote from: trueblue1234 on January 09, 2024, 04:02:02 PMI'll just throw this up here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46651702.amp
Not a faith healers cure but a natural remedy...
You'll be telling me there's no tooth fairy next!!
Quote from: trueblue1234 on January 09, 2024, 08:12:06 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on January 09, 2024, 06:56:26 PMQuote from: trueblue1234 on January 09, 2024, 04:02:02 PMI'll just throw this up here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-46651702.amp
Not a faith healers cure but a natural remedy...
You'll be telling me there's no tooth fairy next!!
Cost me a flipping fiver one night, no coins in the house!
The placebo effect imo.Tell someone they've been given a cure and they believe it.
Told the missus about this thread and she showed me a Facebook page called Armagh General Queries or something and it full of people looking for the phone number of the man who helps you find lost objects :-\ . Apparently saying "Jesus lost, Jesus found" on Facebook does the same trick. Who knew the big man was keeping an eye on Armagh Facebook pages.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on January 09, 2024, 08:46:55 PMTold the missus about this thread and she showed me a Facebook page called Armagh General Queries or something and it full of people looking for the phone number of the man who helps you find lost objects :-\ . Apparently saying "Jesus lost, Jesus found" on Facebook does the same trick. Who knew the big man was keeping an eye on Armagh Facebook pages.
The fools just need to pray to St Anthony.
Another of people here being quite blasfemous. Around the year 2000 I had an awful time with the runs and visited a nun in Portglenone. She had a good look and hoke about, put her hands over me and said something in Latin. Within 3 weeks my bowels were hunky dory and since then I've only had the runs about 10 times. These things work if you are open minded. Her name was Sister Bradley but she was since derobed over a betting scandal but still does cures from her home in Stranocum.
Quote from: Olly on January 09, 2024, 09:58:41 PMAnother of people here being quite blasfemous. Around the year 2000 I had an awful time with the runs and visited a nun in Portglenone. She had a good look and hoke about, put her hands over me and said something in Latin. Within 3 weeks my bowels were hunky dory and since then I've only had the runs about 10 times. These things work if you are open minded. Her name was Sister Bradley but she was since derobed over a betting scandal but still does cures from her home in Stranocum.
Nuns on the Run ?
Quote from: Olly on January 09, 2024, 09:58:41 PMAnother of people here being quite blasfemous. Around the year 2000 I had an awful time with the runs and visited a nun in Portglenone. She had a good look and hoke about, put her hands over me and said something in Latin. Within 3 weeks my bowels were hunky dory and since then I've only had the runs about 10 times. These things work if you are open minded. Her name was Sister Bradley but she was since derobed over a betting scandal but still does cures from her home in Stranocum.
Put her hands all over you? Took three weeks for your bowels to clean up? A betting scandal?
I feel a novel coming on.
Quote from: Olly on January 09, 2024, 09:58:41 PMAnother of people here being quite blasfemous. Around the year 2000 I had an awful time with the runs and visited a nun in Portglenone. She had a good look and hoke about, put her hands over me and said something in Latin. Within 3 weeks my bowels were hunky dory and since then I've only had the runs about 10 times. These things work if you are open minded. Her name was Sister Bradley but she was since derobed over a betting scandal but still does cures from her home in Stranocum.
Stranocum is the place for that ....her and sweet Stella's Da in competition...
Quote from: Olly on January 09, 2024, 09:58:41 PMAnother of people here being quite blasfemous. Around the year 2000 I had an awful time with the runs and visited a nun in Portglenone. She had a good look and hoke about, put her hands over me and said something in Latin. Within 3 weeks my bowels were hunky dory and since then I've only had the runs about 10 times. These things work if you are open minded. Her name was Sister Bradley but she was since derobed over a betting scandal but still does cures from her home in Stranocum.
I hope you have convinced some of the non believers with this enlightening tale.
I remember every now and then a group would come to our town with the miraculous gloves of Padre Pio, which were fingerless gloves he used to wear to cover the blood from his stigmata. The town hall would be packed as if for a raffle or a night of Bingo and the gloves would be passed around and everyone encouraged to rub them on any ailment that needed curing. No doctor privacy there. We must have been all stone mad. That said, there was always local "Quacks" around that had cure for all sorts of things. The whooping cough could only be cured by a Quack. There was no taking the child to the doctor for that.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on January 08, 2024, 10:42:01 PMLoad of balls? Only for simpletons?
This wife's hairdresser told her to treat a wart on the young fellas hand by cutting a potato into quarters, rubbing the potato on the wart, driving to a crossroads and then throwing each quarter up each road at the crossroads. :o
I think we'll just get it burned off at the surgery!
I got this done to me when I was a kid. It did actually work.
Quote from: clarshack on January 10, 2024, 02:17:16 PMQuote from: Tony Baloney on January 08, 2024, 10:42:01 PMLoad of balls? Only for simpletons?
This wife's hairdresser told her to treat a wart on the young fellas hand by cutting a potato into quarters, rubbing the potato on the wart, driving to a crossroads and then throwing each quarter up each road at the crossroads. :o
I think we'll just get it burned off at the surgery!
I got this done to me when I was a kid. It did actually work.
Cutting it off, or spuds at the crossroads?
Quote from: J70 on January 10, 2024, 02:53:14 PMQuote from: clarshack on January 10, 2024, 02:17:16 PMQuote from: Tony Baloney on January 08, 2024, 10:42:01 PMLoad of balls? Only for simpletons?
This wife's hairdresser told her to treat a wart on the young fellas hand by cutting a potato into quarters, rubbing the potato on the wart, driving to a crossroads and then throwing each quarter up each road at the crossroads. :o
I think we'll just get it burned off at the surgery!
I got this done to me when I was a kid. It did actually work.
Cutting it off, or spuds at the crossroads?
The spuds.