476 KEPORT — 1897. 



has often heard the saw repeated within the last months (September 

 1896). 



443. Kelts. — A puppy poisoned by eating a skin that was being pre- 

 pared with arsenical ointment, salt dissolved in warm water was at once 

 poured over its throat. A decoction of ash leaves boiled in milk was 

 afterwards administered. The dog recovered. (Told by the gamekeeper 

 who did so. Cf. No. 421.) 



Diseases. 

 Whooping-covgli. 



444. Kirkpatrick, Durliam. — My informant has talked with a woman 

 whose maiden name was the same as that of her husband's, who used to 

 give a ' piece ' to children labouring under whooping-cough that were 

 brought to her for cure. 



445. Kells. — My informant has seen children labouring under whooping- 

 cough brought to receive a ' piece ' from his wife, whose maiden name was 

 the same as his own. When the child was unable to eat the whole of the 

 ' ipiece ' that had been given, the remainder was carefully wrapped in the 

 child's pinafore and taken home. 



446. Rerrick. — A cure for whooping-cough is to put the patient 

 through under the belly of an ass. 



447. Corsock. — It was a custom to take children having whooping- 

 ■cough away in carts four or five miles to the hills, to cure them of the 

 disease. 



Warts. 



448. Corsock. — Put ivy leaves steeped in vinegar over warts as a cure. 

 My informant has tried. this cure. 



449. A cure for warts is to rub them with green bean-leaves. My 

 informant has done this. 



450. The juice of Dandelion (Leontodon taraxacum) is used as a cure 

 ior warts. 



451. Swine's blood rubbed over warts dispels them. 



452. Kells. — Take a potato, make a hole in it, fill the hole with salt, 

 and allow it to melt. Rub the warts with the lotion. 



453. Crossmichael. — Take a pebble for each wart, roll them in a piece 

 of paper, and lay the parcel on a public road. Whoever picks up the 

 parcels gets the warts. 



Whitlow. 



454. Corsock. — Kill a fowl, rip it up, and tie it round the affected 

 finger or thumb. 



The Mumps. 



455. Corsock. — The Mumps (?) is called 'Branks.' The mode of cure 

 is to put a horse's branks over the patient's head and lead him or her to 

 water as one does a hoi'se. 



Jaimdice. 



456. Bahnaghie. — Strip off the inner bark or fell from the wych elm, 

 boil it, and drink the juice. There is one of these trees about a quarter 

 of a mile from Lauriestou. It is quite a practice for folks to come to it 

 for a few branches to get the bark. Sometimes they come from a distance, 



