School: Cashen, Baile Dubh, Tráighlí (roll number 14992)

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1. Death, Funerals, Wakes (continued)

   

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   Wakes: -
   They say you should never wear new shoes going to a wake.
   It isn't right to allow people see a corpse through a looking-glass.
   It isn't right to look at a looking glass when there's someone dead in the house.
   When a corpse is taken from a house, the chairs should be turned upside down for fear the corpse would come back.
   Tis right that people who take stools to a wake should bring them back themselves.
   If a woman took anything to a wakehouse, she should bring it back again.
   Corpses should be removed feet first.
   You should not look out a window, when a corpse is being taken out of a house.
   You should wash the four corners of a tick, after a person being laid-out in it.
   If a person dies outside, and is brought home to be waked, the fire is taken out before the corpse is brought in.
   It's not lucky to bring a corpse into a house.
   It is unlucky to have three candles lighting over a corpse.
   If you happened to be alone in a wake-room, you shouldn't go away and leave the corpse alone. You should always wait until someone else comes in and stays with the corpse after you.
   A coffin should be taken out through the door that the sun shines on.
   When a corpse is removed to the church or graveyard, someone should always remain in the house until the relatives come back.
   If you had an animal and to meet a funeral on the road, you should turn the animal's head in the direction the funeral is going.
   It isn't right to cry, after coming back to the house, after burying a child.

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   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)

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