School: Gleanntán
- Location:
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
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- (continued from previous page)To cure the same disease people used let their children crawl between a donkey's legs saying, "In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost." A cure for the stomach was to boil an onion and drink the water as hot as the person could drink it.
- Boiled Marchmallow, was used in former times to cure a lump or a boil on the skin. You should boil the flower and make it like jelly.
A cure for asthma was to boil a dandelion and treat it in the same way as the marchmallow and drink it.(continues on next page)