School: Seosamh Naomhtha (roll number 16640)

Location:
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An Bráthair Naiti
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  2. XML Page 111
  3. XML “Cure for the Whooping-Cough”
  4. XML “Cure for Warts”
  5. XML “Cure for the Hiccups”

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  1. Get a hair out of the head of a child whose father died before it was born and put a small rib of it on to a piece of bread and jam and give it to a child to eat. That child will never take the whooping cough.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Mc Govern
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Miss C Gillespie
    Relation
    Not a relative
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 30
    Address
    Derry, Co. Derry
  2. Get ten pieces of knotted straw bury one of them. Then rub the other nine on the warts three times a day for three days. Then bury them and when they have rotted. The warts disappear.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  3. The first hickup that comes say there goes one of them. when the second one comes say there goes two of them. if a third one comes say there goes three of them and the fourth one will never come
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.