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School: Kilmuckridge

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Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
L. Mac Donnell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0887, Page 199

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    Long ago people people used to say that if a woman had the same name before and after marriage, that she would be gifted with the Whooping Cough cure : She had merely to give the sick child some bread and it immediately got well.
    It was also believed that if a child was passed out under an asses legs and over its back three times that it would be cured of Whooping Cough.
    Another reputed "cure" was that if a mother had a deaf + dumb child and put it in a bag and carried it round on her back while she went begging bread from door to door among her neighbours + friends, without letting them see or hear the child - that
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. animal husbandry (~2,587)
            1. medicine for animal sicknesses (~175)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Kinsella
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75
    Address
    Litter Beg, Co. Wexford