There was a boy from Kylemore I met in America used to be able to tell fortunes. He used to be telling them when the work would be done, and we would be having afternoon tea. He told me one time I would soon be at a burying, and it would be a baby's burying, and I laughed at that. But sure enough, my sister's baby, that was not born at the time, died about a month after, and I went to its burying. _A Herd:_ Crying for those that are going to die you'd hear of often enough. And when my own wife was dying, the night she went I was sitting by the fire, and I heard a noise like the blow of a flail on the door outside. And I went to see what it was, but there was nothing there. But I was not in any way frightened, and wouldn't be if she came back in a vision, but glad to see her I would be. _A Miller:_ There was a man that was out in the field and a flock of stares (starlings) came about his head, and it wasn't long after that he died. * * * * * There's many say they saw the Banshee, and that if she heard you singing loud she'd be very apt to bring you away with her. _A Connemara Woman:_ One night the clock in my room struck six and it had not struck for years, and two nights after--on Christmas night--it struck six again, and afterwards I heard that my sister in America had died just at that hour. So now I have taken the weights off the clock, that I wouldn't hear it again. _Mrs. Huntley:_ It was always said that when a Lord ---- died, a fox was seen about the house. When the last Lord ---- lay dying, his daughter heard a noise outside the house one night, and opened the hall-door, and then she saw a great number of foxes lying on the steps and barking and running about. And the next morning there was a meet at some distant covert--it had been changed there from hard by where it was to have taken place on account of his illness--and there was not a single fox to be found there or in any other covert. And that day he died. _J. Hanlon:_ There was one Costello used to be ringing the bell and pumping water and such things at Roxborough, and one day he was at the fair of Loughrea. And as he started home he sent word to my grandfather "Come to the corner of the old castle and you'll find me dead." So he set out, and when he got to the corner of the castle, there was Costello lying dead before him. * * * * * And once going to a neighbour's house to see a little girl, I saw her running along the path before me. But when I got to the house she was in bed sick, and died two days after. _Pat. Linskey:_ Well, the time my own wife died I had sent her into _Cloon_ to get some things from the market, and I was alone in the house with the dog. And what do you think but he started up and went out to the hill outside the house, and there he stood a while howling, and it was the very next day my wife died.