School: Kilmuckridge
- Location:
- Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: L. Mac Donnell
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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(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Kinsella
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Litter Beg, Co. Wexford