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Cure for 'falling sickness' [epilepsy] in which a 'famh' [mole] is held 'up above your breath till it dies - held up by the hind leg til it dies'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Note which reads 'Striking the dearna to revive a person in a fit so also in C[ailleach] an Dudain.'

Note which states that sacrificing a black cat or a black cock is a cure for falling sickness [epilepsy]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Remedy for tinneas tuiteamas or epilepsy in which a cockerel is buried alive with its feet tied together and three sixpences and a cairn built over the top. Says that girls from 2, Glen Street, Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] say that they saw this done in Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ròs is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty], and that a hole was dug but nettles grew there every year despite tilling the ground.