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Geashill, Co. Offaly
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S. de Bláca
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  1. Cures for Whooping-Cough

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    No 1:
    Get a woman who is married to a man of the same name to make bread. Give this bread to the child who has the whooping and the cough goes.
    No 2:
    If the mother of a child gets out the first thing in the morning and meets a ma with a white horse and asks him for a cure and do everything he tells and take a hair out of the horse the cough goes.
    No 3:
    If the childs godfather ties a ribbon round the child's neck the cough goes.
    No 4:
    Give an ass a bit of bread and any crumbs the ass let's fall give them to the child who has the cough and make the child eat them. Then the cough goes.
    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
    Ramon Daly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Alderborough, Co. Offaly