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Mon Mar 10, 2014, 06:24 AM Mar 2014

The Chincough or Whooping Cough

The Chincough or Whooping Cough can be cured by holding a toad in the mouth. The toad will take on the disease. Or you can cure it by eating roast mice, or riding a pie-bald horse.

-W.C. Hazlitt's Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore

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