Volume: CBÉ 0581 (Part 3)
- Date
- 1930–1939
- Collectors
- Locations
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0581, Page 308
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“When questioned about things being put into the coffin with the corpse...”
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“The corpse was usually washed and "left over board" by some old woman, the local midwife.”
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“The dead man's razor was used for shaving the corpse.”
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“Patrick Duffy, when questioned, said that he saw the water with which the corpse had been washed being thrown...”
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“The habit is usually put on the dying person before death supervenes.”