School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)
- Location:
- Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 240
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- Two people bearing the same name before marriage stand at each side of a donkey. Pass the child three times under and over the donkey and it will be cured of whooping cough.
- meet a man riding a white horse ask him for a cure and whatever he says will cure the whooping cough
- give an ass a slice of bread and let the crumbs he lets fall be given to the child
- get a little bag and put a hairy molly into it - tie it round your neck- the hairy molly will die and according as it dies the whooping cough will get better.
- eat three small pieces of loaf bread which have been dipped in new milk three times a day. if this has been done for three days on the fourth day whooping cough will get better.
- inhale the smoke of a burning hoof in a blacksmiths forge.
- Collector
- Jennie Ffrench
- Gender
- Female
- hold head over boiling tar.
