Warts can be cured by a visit to a Trim cemetery using a pin and water resting on a tombstone.
It is claimed that the tomb of the jealous man and woman in a cemetery in Trim can cure warts. In the cemetery next to the ruins of St Peter and Paul’s Cathedral lies a stone tomb known locally as the jealous man and woman. The tomb is the resting place of Sir Lucas Dillon, a leading Irish barrister and judge of the Elizabethan era, and his first wife Lady Jane Bathe. The tomb is a chest topped by stone effigies of a man and a woman with a sword between them.
The celestial power of the ancient tomb is believed to cure warts. A wart will disappear if the following instructions are carried out.
Dip a pin into the water which gathers in pools on the tomb and prick the wart three times on each of three separate visits to the tomb.
Scattered around the tomb are pins, a testament to the number of people who have followed this simple procedure.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 24 July 1975. The reporter is Derek Davis.
