School: Eiscreach (roll number 13945)
- Location:
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0153, Page 126
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- Cures (Whose Practice Is Rapidly Lessening)Whooping Cough: 1st cure; ask the first man you see coming with a white horse for a cure.
Do as he bids, however foolish his advice may be.
2nd cure; Give asses milk occasionally to child.
3rd cure; Catch a fish alive and give three drops of water out of his mouth to child.
4th cure; Go to where a stream of river forms a boundary between two parishes. Bring the child across it three times in one direction, praying while doing so.
5th cure: Give a magpie's soup to the child.
6th cure: Tie a spit - nancy (i. e. some hairy kind of an animal of the snail species) in a rag around the childs neck and leave it there until it dries.
7th cure: Give the ferret's leaving to the child(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán S. Ó Raghallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
