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The Helful Hob is a Brownie-like spirit who looks after the health of children, notably curing them of whooping cough, according to North Country traditions in Britain. If your child had this cough, the way of summoning Hob was to say this rhyme as you put your child into a cave on Runswick Bay, near Hartlepool:
Hobhole Hob! Hobhole Hob!
Ma bairn's gotten t'kink cough.
Tak't off, Tak't off! (take it off)
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