Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Wakes and Funerals (Taghmon)

   

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   When the person dies the body is left for about half an hour, and then it is washed. The water with which the corpse is washed is thrown out first the same as any other water.
   Then the habit is put on the corpse. In a good many cases the corpse is put in the coffin imediately, with the lid oft and waked that way. In other cases it is waked on a bed.
   A table is placed beside the head of the bed on which are there lighted candles a crucifix, holy

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script