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1. Local Cures

   

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   Miss Hennebry of East Ferry aged about eighty-six told me of some cures. She said if you walked between a donkey's legs three times you would be cured of whooping cough. If you drank hot porter you would be cured of measles. If you eat sheep's droppings you would be cured of pneumonia. If you eat what had been left of anything a ferret had been eating you would be cured of lumbago. If you had warts on your hands you should count how many warts you had. Then get a bag and fill the bag with as many stones. Then put the bag and its contents at a cross-roads. Whoever would pick up the bag would then get warts to the exact same number as were on your hands while those you had would disappear. A sore throat was cured by drinking the juice of the dandelion. To cure wild-fire the sufferer asked a friend to write his name around the inflammation which would in a short time disappear. The same cure is used for ring worm. If a person got nettled he got a dock leaf and rubbed it to the affected part. This

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