Volume: CBÉ 0221
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- (continued from previous page)the rosary is again said, and then all the relatives of the deseased person bid him or her goodbye by placing their hand on the forehead. Then the body of the deseased is place in the coffin and carried out to the hearse by the relatives of the dead person. Then the funeral starts off to the graveyard and the relatives walk behind the hearse, that in the mankind the woman walk generally travell in a mourning wach. When the funeral arrives at the graveyard the coffin is taken out by the relatives of the deseased and brought all around the graveyard, and then finally to the spot where the grave is made. This is done so that everyone at the funeral may have a chance of "giving a fill" to the coffin.
Then the coffin is lowered with the grave, and everybody throws in a small lump of(continues on next page)