On the 22nd January, 1908, two women were talking together in Long
Causeway. One asked the other how her child was? (It was suffering from
whooping cough). The mother replied, "No better. The other day Mrs. ----
told me to steal a bit of raw meat from a butcher's and cut a hole in
it, and put a lock of my hair in the hole and give it to a dog to eat. I
did it, but it is no better." I had previously heard this, but with the
difference that it should be a lock of the child's hair.