School: Murher (C.) (roll number 13541)
- Location:
- Murher, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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- (continued from previous page)Never go into a churchyard except to a funeral.
Never count the cars at a funeral.
If there are two funerals to the same churchyard on the same day each party do their best to be first in the gate of the church, as the last corpse to enter is supposed to have to draw water to the dead until the next corpse arrives.
If a person dies a distance from home, if possible the funeral must come in such a way as to pass that person's own home on its way to the churchyard.
A pregnant woman should never go into a churchyard. It is believed that if she does, the child will be born with a(continues on next page)
