Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-10
IRISH SUPERSTiTlONS

TIE pishthroges are all charms of an evil
sature
Candle ends used at wakes are highly priced
Tor scalds and burns.
A cat is never taken from one house to an
other when removing.
A round tower or castle ruin unfrequented
by iackdaws is certainly haunted.
Many truly believe the banshee 10 be the
spirit Of some former member Of the family
If hare be met on May morning the
milk is likely to be charmed from the cows.
1t is very unlucky to meet in the early
morning barking dog or barefooted
woman.
II an osprey be shot along any coast ell the
herring and mackerel viii Immediately dis
appear
When the starting docs not follow tie graz
ing cattle some witch charm has been put
upon them
When a corpse retains animal heat over
long another member of the family is TO die
within the year
Garments and other articles which have
come i'll contact with the dead are very eff
cacious in disease.
II the stacks are not circled each night by
the noiseless barn owl, blight will fall upon
next seasons crops.
The magpie. ss with the ancient Greeks. is
the repository Of the soul Of an evil minded
and gossipipg woman
The tongue of one who has licked a lizard
ever after has the power TO extract the sting
from scalds and burns
The dead are believed 10 have the bitterest
experiences if buried at any distance from
their homes while living
The sedge warbler, known more popularity
ss the Irish nightingale" Is the object Of
most tender superstition
The coaeh-a-bover or death coach seems
70 stand In something the same relation &c
the peasantry as the banshee.
The last one buried in church yard is be
heved to DO all manner Of u1euial service for
those having been previously buried
Every twelfth night The dead wask. Trey
sit, toe. upon every tile Of the house. waiting
10 be freed from rurgatory by prayer.
The hnnet poUrs forth the most melancholy
song Of al Irish birds. and have ssen honest
hearted peasants affected By II 70 tears
when the nest Q. the thrush or raavi, /,
built unusually high IN the tborn bush, this
betokeus e great calamity 70 nsighborhood
Grea. numbers Of jays or rui-sel-shrush~s.
feeding upon ths berries of the hawthorn
betoksn tie approach Of very cold winter
Every donkey IN ireland Il supposed 70 fall
OF its knees a. midnight d Christmas eve
and bray three times in hossor Of its ancseni
noble Use.
Over IN CoEaannara 70 shts day fun--ni
procession On Tvs war 20 church viii halt a.
s7rne disance away and cas-. together hugs
Pile Of ssoues-
One of th~ odd=e Of sli Ir,sh suc~-sss.iors
Is TIE b,ss.ef that IL yo1 enASe as1 catch
butterfly yos inprssoz tbs wandering so1I u
your gran1nother.
Ary ehll5 born On VIII. sunday or shs
day after Is doomed 20 an unnatural death, !
AID i il Invariably narncd after sosns partscs |
uJHr sAir. % ward 81 he cure
AIRY threo i5ls strokes a stick ri ies
ashes or sr@ss o- osser farm tod 10 Tee srsi
MAKING figure res--snsng . o01la IL certA2s /
20 porzsssd deasa IN orss fa1slly.
TIE warTsnx, To- h@asttfal !ncsniLars /
sris * Plsny. whose hreedirg taants bare i
never re. b~s1 discovered DT ssaa, AZ. tks /
torches q tie bean ssGhe or hans1ees
When abroad a. rigas css a~ve< sGrrx .. /
tie sosad q saosssars c<Slrsd Far sesss are
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