School: Cnoc an Choillín, Cootehall
- Location:
- Knockaculleen or Hollymount, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Mhártain
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- (continued from previous page)Marshmallow.
Tye marshmallow leaves are boiled and the juice is taken from them. The juice is then drank. It is a remedy for coughs and for the whooping cough.
Long ago a woman lay in bed with cancer. She was in terrible pain. The doctors could not relieve her. One night she had a vision and she saw bushes of marshmallow growing in a garden and a voice seemed to say "If you desire relief from the pain, apply some leaves of the herb to the cancer."
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