1817 G. YOUNG History of Whitby II 883. Another aerial being … had his dwelling in Hob-hole, near Runswick … His powers were exercised in curing young children of the hooping-cough … One of its parents carried it into the cave, and with loud voice thus invoked the demigod of the place: ‘Hob-hole Hob! my bairn's got kink-cough: take't off; take't off’!Cf. RAILWAY TUNNEL cures whooping cough.
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