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1. Death Customs and Superstitions (continued)

   

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   A day and a night at home and is brought to the Chapel for the second night and Buried next day. Rich people Have a High mass and office. The relations wear black for some time after - for parents or children black is worn for a year, for grandparents, uncles and aunts and cousins Some people wear black for six months and some just wear a black hat or a black tie or band.

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2. Death Customs and Superstitions

   

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   When a child is very quiet and hardly ever cries It is a sign that it will not live.
   When you hear the dog keening it is a sign that someone is dying.
   If a sick person is all the time picking the blankets on the bed It is a sign that they are dying.
   If a person who dies does not get stiff there will soon be another death in the family.
   When a person is waking in a house the people stop the clock because they say the corpse would not rest if they did not stop it.
   There is usually a plate of snuff And plenty of clay pipes left on the quilt over the corpse

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