School: Ballyharry (roll number 11235)
- Location:
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Bríde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 494
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- If anyone comes into the house and gives the child "which" has the whooping cough a sweet or a piece of rock without being asked, the child is cured of the whooping cough.
If the child passes three times under a donkey, he is cured of the whooping cough.
If a child with the whooping cough can get a price of bread and butter from a married couple, who were the same name before marriage, he is cured of the sickness.
A cure for a "staye" is to jag it nine times with a gooseberry jag and say "get away out of that or I'll jag you".
A cure for "wildfire" (a disease something like eczema) was to go to a wise man who lived in this district three mornings after "another" and to let that man rub a "fasting" spittle on it. It would then(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maighread Nic Aonghuis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Cathleen Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ballycharry, Co. Donegal
