Volume: CBÉ 0549 (Part 4) Date 1938Collector Bríd Ní Ghamhnáin Location Killadoon, Co. Sligo List Browse Titles (73) 1. Acts as a Result of which One Exposes Himself to the Danger of Becoming Ill or Dying Lore 2. “Very little is known in this district concerning question (2) except perhaps the custom ...” Lore 3. “There are not any expressions in the Irish language used for death or dying in this district...” Lore 4. Ideas Concering the Form and Appearance of Death Lore 5. “The general belief concerning a person who is afraid to die is that during his life ...” Lore 6. Signs from which One can Predict the Early Occurence of a Death Lore 7. “There were doctors long ago.” Lore 8. “To lead to the recovery of such a person, if the illness happens to be dangerous...” Lore 9. “The priest is usually sent for when the doctor pronounces the patient in danger of death.” Lore 10. “To the minds of the older generation in this district, it would seem that typhus and famine ...” Lore 11. “There are several signs from which it is judged that a person is near unto death.” Lore 12. “Usually neighbours and near relatives of the dying person who watch by the death bed.” Lore 13. “It is rather difficult to find out what most people's ideas are about the struggle with death...” Lore 14. “The ideas about the soul are that it is a spirit, which gives life, and feeling to the body.” Lore 15. “Garmets or pieces of cloth which are used when a person is killed or murdered...” Lore 16. “Immediately after death a person's eyes and mouth are closed...” Lore 17. “The dead person is laid when prepared usually in the room in which he dies...” Lore 18. “The inner garmets worn by a person when he dies are usually buried.” Lore 19. “Clothes are not worn by a relative for the benefit of the sould of the deceased person, in this district.” Lore 20. “Holding a mirror to the person's mouth, if there is moisture on the glass, the person is still alive.” Lore 21. “Death is usually announced first to the neighbours, as they are sometimes called in to help wash...” Lore 22. “The grave making is ordered, by some friend or neighbour of the diseased...” Lore 23. “A person's soul was never known to appear except after death, then it is said to appear in what is usually ...” Lore 24. “Lamenting for the dead is not carried out nowadays as it was long ago...” Lore 25. “It is believed that animals sorrow after their masters or any person who has been kind to them.” Lore 26. “Bells are rung when a funeral is being brought to the chapel and when it is leaving it.” Lore 27. “Coffins nowadays are always bought at the undertakers, but in older times...” Lore 28. “The dead person when placed in the coffin, is always dressed in the habit in which he was 'laid out” Lore 29. “Sometimes objects which the diseased person may have liked are buried with him...” Lore 30. “In olden times when a person died changes were made in the house.” Lore 31. “The diseased person is never coffined except on special occasions...” Lore 32. “Friends and relatives always come to see the dead person...” Lore 33. “The diseased person is always buried in the family plot in some local cemetry.” Lore 34. “The implements used for making the grave are usually a ley and a shovel.” Lore 35. “There are many different opinions regarding the best place in which a person should be buried.” Lore 36. “The grave is usually dug on the day on which the person is to be buried...” Lore 37. “The grave does not seem to play a very important role in the folkbelief of this district...” Lore 38. “The spade and shovel are always placed cross wise over the open grave...” Lore 39. “A grave is not usually opened until it is believed that the last coffin which was put into it is well decayed.” Lore 40. “Wakes nowadays are altogether differnetly carried out, to how they were long ago.” Lore 41. “No special preparations at all are made in the way from the chamber ...” Lore 42. “Usually two days intervene between death and burial, in a case of a person dying on Friday night...” Lore 43. “Usually on the burial day all of the diseased person come to the corpse house.” Lore 44. “There is not anything special done in the house in memory of the dead...” Lore 45. “The corpse is carried from the house on four people's shoulders who bear the same name as the diseased person...” Lore 46. “The diseased is usually borne to the grave in a hearse...” Lore 47. “There is not, nor there was not any definite route to the cemetry...” Lore 48. “One meets a funeral usually by standing on the side of the road, and blessing...” Lore 49. “People await the bell ringing outside the church vis neighbours and sympathisers...” Lore 50. “The corpse is carried on to the cemetery ground on the shoulders of four friends of the diseased... ” Lore 51. “When the coffin bearers arrive at the grave, the coffin is laid down on the turf beside it.” Lore 52. “After the burial, the relatives usually kneel for a few moments in prayer...” Lore 53. “On leaving the church after a requiem Mass people usually go to their homes...” Lore 54. “When a person died in the poor-house, his body was removed to the mortuary, or dead-house...” Lore 55. “All the local cemeteries (or graveyards, as they are they are more commonly known as)...” Lore 56. “The type and nature of the memorial signs on the graves vary according to their ages.” Lore 57. “The principal idea relating to a murder is that it will be found out...” Lore 58. “The priest is always brought to a person found dead on the roadside, so as to annoint him...” Lore 59. “When a good person dies his soul goes to Heaven and when a person who led a wicked life dies his soul goes to Hell.” Lore 60. “No body in this district seems to have heard tell of such a being as the second ...” Lore 61. “Sometimes persons do have relations with the deceased after death...” Lore 62. “All unholy people are believed to go to Hell when they die...” Lore 63. “In olden times spirits were supposed to wander through the world, but at the present time...” Lore 64. “One protects himself from spirits by wearing some kind of a sacramental, such as a scapular abeads...” Lore 65. “In olden times supernatural power was ascribed to the dead, but at the present time...” Lore 66. “Some diseases can be healed by being touched by the dead or some object belonging to him.” Lore 67. “In naming after ancestors, the oldest son is usually called after his father or grandfather on his mother's side.” Lore 68. “The dead are specially remembered on the Anniversaries of their death.” Lore 69. Other Points on Some Questions Lore 70. “It is said to be very wrong for a person to lament overmuch for the dead...” Lore 71. “Another story is told of a woman who was on the point of death at one time...” Lore 72. “A story is told of a young priest who leaved near Ballymote some time ago.” Lore 73. “The belief exists that some people, especially those who...” Lore Mode: Magnify Zoom Jump to page / 384 Archival Reference The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0549, Page 314 Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD. See copyright details. Download On this page (no title) “Immediately after death a person's eyes and mouth are closed...” Share Share Post Item type LoreLanguage English Writing mode Handwritten Writing script Roman script
2. “Very little is known in this district concerning question (2) except perhaps the custom ...” Lore
3. “There are not any expressions in the Irish language used for death or dying in this district...” Lore
10. “To the minds of the older generation in this district, it would seem that typhus and famine ...” Lore
13. “It is rather difficult to find out what most people's ideas are about the struggle with death...” Lore
14. “The ideas about the soul are that it is a spirit, which gives life, and feeling to the body.” Lore
19. “Clothes are not worn by a relative for the benefit of the sould of the deceased person, in this district.” Lore
20. “Holding a mirror to the person's mouth, if there is moisture on the glass, the person is still alive.” Lore
21. “Death is usually announced first to the neighbours, as they are sometimes called in to help wash...” Lore
23. “A person's soul was never known to appear except after death, then it is said to appear in what is usually ...” Lore
25. “It is believed that animals sorrow after their masters or any person who has been kind to them.” Lore
28. “The dead person when placed in the coffin, is always dressed in the habit in which he was 'laid out” Lore
35. “There are many different opinions regarding the best place in which a person should be buried.” Lore
37. “The grave does not seem to play a very important role in the folkbelief of this district...” Lore
39. “A grave is not usually opened until it is believed that the last coffin which was put into it is well decayed.” Lore
42. “Usually two days intervene between death and burial, in a case of a person dying on Friday night...” Lore
45. “The corpse is carried from the house on four people's shoulders who bear the same name as the diseased person...” Lore
50. “The corpse is carried on to the cemetery ground on the shoulders of four friends of the diseased... ” Lore
51. “When the coffin bearers arrive at the grave, the coffin is laid down on the turf beside it.” Lore
54. “When a person died in the poor-house, his body was removed to the mortuary, or dead-house...” Lore
58. “The priest is always brought to a person found dead on the roadside, so as to annoint him...” Lore
59. “When a good person dies his soul goes to Heaven and when a person who led a wicked life dies his soul goes to Hell.” Lore
63. “In olden times spirits were supposed to wander through the world, but at the present time...” Lore
64. “One protects himself from spirits by wearing some kind of a sacramental, such as a scapular abeads...” Lore
67. “In naming after ancestors, the oldest son is usually called after his father or grandfather on his mother's side.” Lore
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