School: Barratitoppy (roll number 14664)
- Location:
- Barratitoppy Lower, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 169
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- Local Cures
A frog is the cure of the cinn-cough, you must catch it and spit down it's throat and cough down its throat and then let it go.
If it should be that a child should never see it's father, then he would have the cure of the thrush, he would blow his breath on the child and then it is cured.
Food left behind by a ferret is the cure of whooping cough, and when you get rid of it the ferret takes it and dies.
To be led across a river three times with a donkey's halter on your head is the cure of the mumps.
Another cure for the cinn-cough is to walk in and out three times under a donkey's hind legs.
The seventh son in every family has the cure of the evil.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mac Caffrey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghanameena, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- John Lappin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Aghanameena, Co. Monaghan
