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   “If a man and his wife were milking the cows and a stranger came into the byre...”

   

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   to his eye three days in succession, and would throw the tenth one away. This done, the eye is supposed to be cured. Anything a person gets without asking for it is supposed to be a cure for the hay-cup. (hiccough) A person would be cured of the whooping cough if he would drink out of a trout's mouth. Foul mouth may be cured by chewing the stem of a piece of woodbine in your mouth. Garlic, boiled on sweet milk, is a cure for a cold. Mountain, sage, liquarice stick, sugar of candy and alcohol boiled together is a cure for a cold on the chest. If you give a ferret milk to drink, the amount he leaves after him is a cure for the whooping-cough. A herb grows along the ditches and some times on the walls of old houses. If this is

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   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Angela Mc Godrick

   Gender

   Female