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School: Damastown (roll number 12327)

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Damastown, Co. Dublin
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Delia Wilson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 215

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    The foods left after a ferret is a cure for whooping cough
    If a person is held under an ass and the ass is given bread to eat and then the person eats a little of the same bread he will be cured of whooping cough.
    There is a well in the Grallagh graveyard the water of which cures whooping cough. If you tie a live caterpillar on a string round your neck, as it withers away the whooping cough will wear away.
    If you put Saint Patrick's leaf on a cut it will stop it from bleeding.
    The juice that comes out of an ash stick while burning will cure warts.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dora Monks
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Grallagh, Co. Dublin