School: Traceystown (roll number 12156)
- Location:
- Tracystown West, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Proínséas Bean Uí Phearáil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 106
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- Whooping Cough - If anyone should pass by riding a piebald horse the father or mother of the whooper runs after him crying out : - "You that rides the piebald horse; what's good for the chin cough ?
Whatever the rider prescribes, no matter how absurd, is got and given to the patient.Another cure was to pass the child three times over and under a donkey, certain prayers being said during the operation.Parents in these times often believed that the fairies had taken their children, substituting a fairy for it, and in order to get the child back they had different remedies.One was to put the supposed fairy child on a bed outside the clothes, his feet on the bolster and his head at the foot, on his chest was placed a plate(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Coolraheen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs M. O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Coolraheen, Co. Wexford
