Scoil: Davidstown (uimhir rolla 9682)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Superstitions in Connection with Wakes (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   In the graveyard each relative throws in a handful of clay before the covering of the grave is begun. In this parish a Month's Mind is generally held over the deceased person - also a twelve months' Memory (Both requiem Mass & Office).

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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2. Superstitions in Connection with Wakes

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Pat Hennessey (22) Davidstown, told him by his father, Michael Hennessey (5-) who heard it from the late Nicholas Keating, Ballinavarry who died in 1918 aged 100.
   Wakes were held in barn or outhouse. Whiskey & tobacco given out. Games, such as "Hide the button", "the Priest of the Parish", the rule of contrariness" &c were played to pass the night away. Cards were sometimes played, at which the corpse would be counted a player.
   Relatives walking behind the bier at a funeral were expected to cry. The bed in which the person was waked had to be moved immediately for fear another member of the family would soon be waking. A limber corpse was supposed to presage the same went.
   No member of the family would answer a knock at the door after nightfall in a house where a person had died, for fear it might be the dead person returning for another member of the family. After three weeks the danger had passed.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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   Topaicí

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
            1. games
               1. wake games (~170)
         2. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Pat Hennessey

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   22

   Seoladh

   Davidstown, Co. Wexford