School: Lios Uí Chearbhaill (B.), Malla (roll number 12015)
- Location:
- Liscarroll, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0367, Page 037
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- (continued from previous page)part in cow dung without delay. It was claimed that there would be no mark of the burn left after this. A curious belief existed in some places about the whooping cough. It was believed that a man with a white horse could always give a cure, so whenever the whooping cough attacked the children the mother was always on the look-out for a man riding a white horse. As he passed along she shouted, "man with the white horse what will cure the "chin" cough." Whatever the man recommended was supposed to cure it; but very often there was no answer or maybe an uncivil one according to the humour of the horseman.
- Collector
- James Dennis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyge, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Moyge, Co. Cork
