School: St. Joseph's, Illies
- Location:
- Illies, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: F. Loughlin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 461
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- If a married couple are of the same name, the woman bakes pan-cakes and gives them to those who have the whooping-cough and these are said to cure them.
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If a person who has the whooping-cough is put under a donkey three times he will be cured.
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If you give bread to a donkey to eat and give the crumbs that drop from the donkey, to the person who has thew whooping cough, to eat, he will be cured.
