To dream of being pursued with a sharp weapon is unlucky.
To dream that one is wounded, and bleeding freely, is a good omen for the chase.
To dream of the sun and moon is probably unlucky, especially if one dreams of the waning moon. But it is not unlucky to dream of the new moon.
To dream of a bridge breaking is unlucky. But to dream of crossing a bridge in safety is lucky.
For a husband to dream of his absent wife as smiling, well-dressed, or sleeping with himself, is unlucky.—(Written down from memory. Told by Ishanashte, November, 1886.)
IRISH FOLK-LORE.
[Reprinted from A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, drawn from the communications of the Clergy, by William Shaw Mason. Dublin, London, and Edinburgh. 1814-1819. 8vo. 3 vols.]
(Continued from ante, Vol. v. p. 335.)
Kilmactige, county Sligo.
The sick bed is usually a wad of straw laid on the floor, near the fire, and sometimes on a bedstead, and let the weather be what it may there is a constant fire and abundance of smoke kept up, neither do they think of changing the poor creature's linen or bed-clothes. As soon as the breath has departed from a sick person the bed is carried out, and if there be high ground near the house it is there set on fire and consumed to ashes, whilst the air resounds with the doleful cries of the survivors, who use this ceremony for the purpose of notifying the departure of the deceased to the surrounding villages and warning them to give their attendance at the approaching wake and funeral.—(Vol. ii. p. 368.)
