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School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)

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Cappamore, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
James McCarthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 187

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    When children had the chin cough their father or mother used to out on the road and the first man they met riding a grey horse they used say to him, "You who ride a grey horse give me a cure for the chin cough". You should do what he tells you. But that custom has died out now.
    Old people say if you see a man riding a grey horse, and ask him what would cure a chin cough whatever he would tell you it would cure you.
    Go and meet a man riding on a grey horse and do whatever he tells you.
    If you meet a man riding a white horse whatever cure he will give you will be the best cure.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
          1. medicine for human sicknesses
            1. whooping-cough (~234)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Sweeney
    Gender
    Male
    Collector
    Paddy O' Neill
    Gender
    Male
    Collector
    Tom Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Collector
    Tom O' Donnell
    Gender
    Male