School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 065
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- As the old people are very superstitious there are many things which the believed to be cures for certain diseases.
It was believed that if a man with a pye - bald pony was met accidently on the road anything he would say to give the children was a cure for the whooping cough.
If a woman is married to a man of the same name they also have a cure for the whooping cough.
It is said to be another cure for the same disease to bring the child in and out under and over a donkey three times.
Some people used to bring milk to a ferrit and let him drink some and then take the remainder home to the children and give it to them as a cure for the whooping cough.
When children were bad with mumps there was a donkey's halter put around their neck and they were led around the pigcrow but this pigcrow must be out in a seprate building by itself and they used to say a prayer in Irish as they led them around it.
The seventh son or seventh daughter of a family have also a cure for some disease.
In some places great belief is placed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs M. Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
