School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- (continued from previous page)Without being seen the brother came to the place and he emptied out the coal and put stones in instead. That evening when Séamus came for the coal he put the bag on his back as usual and went home.
When he got home his wife told him to put out the coal but instead a lot of stones rolled out on the floor. From that day Séamus and his wife believed that God had punished them for stealing coal and no more coal was stolen.
- Diptheria.
Anyone suffering from diptheria can be cured if a child, who has never seen his father, breathes three times into the mouth of the sufferer.Cut on any part of the body.
When a person gets a cut on any part of his body if a clean cobweb is put on the cut and a bandage put around it, it would be cured.(continues on next page)
