Volume: CBÉ 0548 (Part 4)

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1. 6. Certain Signs Predicting Death

   

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   6.
   (a) Shroud in the candle
   (b) Cock crowing at unseemly hours - esp if he comes and crows in at the door during the day time.
   (c) The Bean Sidhe - bean a' caointe (Doon)
   (d) If your forehead is itchy expect to hear of the death of some near friend (Mrs Alice Ryan, TOEM)
   (e) Heavy footsteps heard going round the house outside passing through all obstacles 'His (her) father is coming for him (her). This always occurs in our family at Cork on the paternal side.
   (f) If two have died in the locality, or if two have been buried in the local graveyard, expect the third.
   (g) Cold feet without (apparent) cause.
   (h) Sleeping on, or in, the car (Carlow)
   (i) When the hands smell of sepulchral clay
   (j) When a person diminishes in height , when his neck gets short.
   (k) When the back of his neck "falls in" (Carlow)
   (l) If the dog caoines unduly sick man or woman will not recover (Carlow).

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