School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 271
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- When a person is going to die a white mist comes before his eyes and a cold sweat runs all over his body.
If a step or a knock is heard at a house in which a person is dying the people say, that it is an angel coming to bring his soul away. If a person goes round the house three times halloween night and says, "Tell me when am I going to die; it is said that a spirit will tell them when they are going to die.
If a person plants a tree and that after five years the person dies the tree will wither and die. It is a sign of death if a robin comes into a house. After a cat has licked himself the first person he looks at will die first.
- Collector
- Mary Anne Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellageeher, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- John Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Bellageeher, Co. Leitrim
- Sayings
Long ago it was the custom not to give anything out of the house on May morning. The people would not part with any money on Haneil Monday because they would be parting with it the whole year round.(continues on next page)
