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.
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