School: Cill Bhriotáin (C.) (roll number 11728)
- Location:
- Kilbrittain, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Cáit de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)by blowing down the throat of the affected person, cure the disease.
Another cure for the disease is to put the bill of a gander, which is fasting into the sick persons mouth and let the patient inhale the ganders breath.
- Rub cow's urine - stale- to the affected parts.
- Informant
- Michael Sheehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Barleyfield, Co. Cork
- 1. Get the blood of a pure black cat and rub it to the wildfire.
2. Write your name around the wildfire with ink.The tongue of the fox will draw out a thorn which has penetrated in to the bone.
Milk or food left untasted by a ferret cures whooping cough.
Another cure for whooping cough is to have the patient walk or crawl under a donkey three times.
