Devon charm to cure whooping cough

Donkey, or Ass, at Clovelly in Devon - by Neil Kennedy [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

"Bring an ass before the door of the house, into whose mouth thrust a slice of new bread, then pass the sick child three times over and under the animal's body, and the charm is completed."

Hewett 1900

[This charm reminds me of another on Dartmoor, where the sick child was put amongst the sheep - there was obviously an idea that the cough sounded like an animal, and thus sympathetic magic was needed.]