School: Maoilinn (B.), Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid de Brún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0350, Page 078
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- The signs of death are many and varied. The people here regard the frog as a blessed creature and when he comes into the house it is regarded as a certain sign that somebody in the house or a relative is to die in a short time.
When the cocks crow loudly and frequently people generally regard this as a sign of death. 'I knew someone was going to die as the cocks had great crowing these days' is a phrase often heard when a local death is announced.
Quite a number of people regard the coming into the house of a hen with a sop in her tail as being 'a sure sign' of death.
The falling of pictures off the wall occurs very frequently before a person dies.
The howling and crying of dogs accompanied by scratching of earth or ground is also supposed to be a sign of death.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fionnbarr O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rowls (Noonan), Co. Cork
