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1. Local Cures - Cures for Whooping-Cough

   

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   1) If a man with a grey horse was passing the house where the child was ill, the Father of the child should go out to the man and say O Man of the Grey horse give me a cure for the Whooping Cough. And whatever he said no matter how ridaculous it would be it was a cure for the cough. 2) To give a Ferret milk to drink and whatever he would leave to give it to the person who had the cough. 3) To take an ass into the house and a person stand at each side of the Ass and put the child out three times under the Ass handing it from one person to the other. 4) Is to inhail hot tar 5) If there was a well near your house

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   English

   Collector

   Lizzie Hourigan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   An tEanach, Co. Luimnigh

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   Pat Rainsford

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   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

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   Male

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   Ceapach na hAithne, Co. Luimnigh