School: Coillín Aodha (B.)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0164, Page 133
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- Local CuresIn this locality there are many cures said to cure Whooping Cough. The first cure is the White Horse. If a child in a house is suffering from whooping cough and the mother of the child goes out on the road and if she sees a man passing with a white horse, and she asks him the cure for the whooping cough whatever cure he suggests is supposed to cure the child.
The next cure is Asses Milk. Another cure is Ferret's Leavings. There is another cure still. If you got two persons of the same name married the belief is that whatever they leave after them after a meal is said to cure the child.
Another cure is a Spraining Thread. If you sprained your foot or your finger and go to Alice McCann and say you sprained(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Boland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Culleens, Co. Sligo
