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   The dog howls and rushes about and bangs against the hall-door. This same old gentleman (75 years old) told me that one night three years ago he heard a carriage pull up at the door and move to the window of the sitting room. He went out but could see nothing. His daughters who were in the village were then coming along the avenue leading to the house. The carriage should have passed them but they neither saw nor heard anything. Soon after Sylvy's wife got sick and died.
   Other friends of Sylvy's - Cronins living in Cork City know there is death in some section of the Cronin family when they hear the "Dead-man's Watch" - a beetle that produces "dry-rot" in wood. The gnawing of the beetle resembles the ticking of a watch..
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   Persons should not cross a coffin while being taken into or out of the house. (Coffin carried feet foremost)

   The Clothes of a Dead Person.
   When a man dies his clothes are to be worn at Mass for three consecutive Sundays without making any alteration in them. They were not to be worn for any other purpose until after the

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Príomhoide