"......when Paddy carried off his bride; for Peggy was a Welsh too, and as a family might fairly be expected, and as everybody knows that the blood of the Welshes, as well as that of the Keoghs and Cahills, beats anything living except that of a black cat's tail or his lug, for the cure of the wild-fire, the gossips hoped that a Welsh, by father and mother, would soon be able to eradicate the disease from the whole country-side." "This was one of the most widely spread superstitions in Ireland. Cutaneous erypsipellias is known to people under the various names of the rose, wildfire, St. Anthony's fire, tene fiadh, the sacred fire, or tinne Diadh, God's fire, th esacer ignis of ancient authors; and it is believed to be cured by the means specified ine the text (marriage of two Welshes) or by having the part rubbed with a wedding ring, or even a gold ring of any description. There is another form of this malady, of a more fatal nature, which is believed to be the result f a blast, and is called the fiolun, or fellon, for the cure of which there are some extraordinary paractises." From a book written by the father of Oscar Wilde called Irish Popular Superstitions.