School: Damastown (roll number 12327)

Location:
Damastown, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
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.

Collector
Dora Monks
Gender
female
Address
Grallagh, Co. Dublin
Informant
(name not given)
Relation
parent
Gender
female
Age
57
Address
Grallagh, Co. Dublin
Language
English