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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 230

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  2. Folk Cures and Charms - Whooping-Cough

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    A cure for whooping cough practised in this district occasionally even to the present day is the following:-
    Two persons - preferably the parents of the patient - and if they are not alive or available two other persons of opposite sexes pass the patient from one to the other over a donkey and under it three times - the donkey being tethered in a byre, stable or other convenient place. The "passing", if the parties are Catholic is done "In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen". Protestants practise this rite also leaving
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