An oration which Colum-Cille set to a wound full of poison—“Arise, O
Carmac, O Clunane, through Christ be thou healed. By the hand of Christ
he thou healed in blood, in marrow, and in bone. AMEN.”
This oration to be pronounced over a man or a woman, a horse or a cow,
but never over a hog or a dog. The wound to be rubbed with butter
during the oration.