School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)it is a sign that a person is going to die.
35. Some say if you see a straw out of a hen's tail it is the sign of a funeral.
36. If a person dies and does not get stiff for a long time it is the sign of another death in the locality.
37. A little insect that live sin timber is heard sometimes ticking like a watch, this is a sign of death.
40 The banshee still follows some families. When she is heard crying outside of your house some one is going to die. She is like a woman all dressed in white with her hair hanging down to the small of her back. She is sometimes seen combing her long hair, and crying at the same time.
The families that the banshee follows are the descendants of the real old Irish Clans.
