Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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   “Those buried eggs are still going strong...”

   

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   Those buried eggs are still going strong in spite of all the priests have had to say about them from the alter for some years past. This dreadful practice is becoming more general and much more virulent in its propensities. At our last mission (Cappawhite 1936) missioners: “I’m told that the man who fired on the woman who was taking his butter by piseog’s only wounded her, more’s the pity”
   [I think I wrote at length about this matter in Book 1]

   

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2. Never Say to the Priest that the Person is Dead

   

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   If a person dies suddenly, i bhfad uainn an t-olc, the priest is sent for. When he arrives he may ask: "Is he (or she) dead?. If he gets an answer in the affirmative, he is powerless to anoint. If the answer is 'No' or I don't know he can anoint no matter how long the person is dead. Great blame is attached to the 'gabber' who anticipates the priest by exclaiming: "Oh you'r too late he's dead". We have so many who know not gur binn béal 'na thost. This is a common ( and hereabouts universal) belief. Not being a theologian in "medium" relinquam!

   

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

3. Tombstones

   

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   Tombstones: All tomb-stones face due East. Corpse carried round graveyard (inside) sunwise. No special provision in this part of the country for unbaptised infants or suicides.

   

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