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==== Causes ====
In Mendiola (A), the people interviewed said that ringworm has pink scaly patches that are very itchy. In Allo and Tiebas (N), they said that it causes small bald patches or circles on the head. In Agurain (A), ''gasepia ''is a disease whose symptoms include hair falling out and is cured by shaving the circles that form in the hair. In Abadiño (B), they spoke about bald circles forming in the hair or beard due to a parasite. In Izal (N), they described a disease known as ''basasos'', whose symptom is hair loss. They believed in that location that ringworm was transmitted by the sheep. In Ainhoa (L), as Azkue pointed out at the start of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, it was said that you should not touch the wren, ''erregexupita'', as that caused ringworm, ''azteria''<ref>''Resurrección Mª de AZKUE. ''Euskalerriaren Yakintza''. Madrid: 1935, p. 113.''</ref>.
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