School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 16821)

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1. Death Signs (continued)

   

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   some near relative.

   Sometimes lights are seen outside houses foretelling the approach of a death, and knocks are heard on the doors.
   It is said also that if a "wagtail" comes into the dwelling house that it is the sign of death.

   Another sign of a death is if a picture falls from the wall without any cause.

   In the house of James Greene of Goorey, Culdaff, a woman was lying seriously ill. In the same house there was an old clock which had long since stopped and at the hour of the woman's death the clock was heard to strike three times.

   There was a coast-guard living in a lodging-house in Malin head, and his wife died, so he married again and there was a woman taking care of

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Sarah Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cashel, Co. Donegal