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School: Teampall Mhuire

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Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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    The whooping cough can be cured in a lot of different ways. When you have a whooping cough and if you met a man riding a white horse, and to ask him for the cure and what ever he tells you to use, you would be cured if you used it.
    The milk that the ferret leaves after him also cures the whooping too.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs O' Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moneen, Co. Mayo