Show irish math death superstitions every E aery twelfth night tho dead walka cwajk and 1 nd on every tilo tile of flie he lebusa sits a S soul 0 ul waiting for prayer to free it ft from JP purgatory T affy adieco A piece of tile the shoot in which a corpse co ipso has been wrapped is is good for the headache end and candle onda ends used at a wale wake will cure burns it you bear steps at night jollow follow iia ing you it ia is very dangerous laug erous to turn tur 6 around for or the steps are ara those ot bt the dead red and cheji their glance ip fatal E aery very ane ona who meets ft A janeral in must turn back unil and walk at least tour four atoka with th it to secure his own good luck ind and prevent resentment from tho the dead the dead are olton sont sent to ea earth F lh w with ith messages mes Bages generally announcing another anoche death and are always glad gl ad to t be so employed employ tid tor for their own r reet a ilef fron froid purgatory atory has haa come res mothers huva sometimes Bomell mea heard th 4 goicoa of their children singing th the old irish songs farrown fardown far down beneath the tha of 0 funeral mounds where the tha fairies dwell the laaff buried in a church yard is compelled td do menial service in the spirit wor world d datil another cornea comes tt t t t a jait E a bia it reel it hence ence when two tune funerals rals meet mary of 0 earth is ia turned to the die same game moment and I 1 ehg fi two lb bodies odies are Inter interred at the same ume I 1 on tile the west ivest coast ot of ireland when a funeral procession is is half way to the churchyard church yard a halt is is milde made and a mound of stones stone w is erected t to a do deceive ce ive the evil etil one who lalta halts there and baart liga the mound for the dead while iha procession hurriedly goes on to tle the the dead greatly desia to t mt est nat tile tho P places laces they lived an being cited of a farmers daughter ilau who went to cork and there died of a frer favor it was judged best to bury her there but the night nigh C afeei hr br faber returned home he hl heard ap tho tha voice of 0 hia big child crying 1 I lam am alona aloa Iya king hg he prayed she ajl might rest reat in peace ti till I 1 morning when he at once pi ft oat and I 1 rought brought the lito body from cork to I 1 mayo ahers the he buried jc it 1 th girl w people I 1 the most powerful W M mystic eslic calr charm known I 1 iu a irish magic is ie the blind band of an infant taken from the gravalin the iha saine of the evil one while the tha next in virtue is the hand of a m murderer when a cai caudle tollo is af pf placed alc in the cleao dai hand no wind or rain can extin guiab it and it il it be carried into a house at night all the occupants will sleep the ale ap of the dead as long asat aa it is is birnios bur vw F ow diseases aan can withstand the p potency of the dead baj hand as a remedy its T girtue being shared even by garments and articles which have touched the corpse or have been used in funeral ceremonies |