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A Wake
When a person was dyeing, it was believed that Evil Epirits would surround their house ready to grab the soul. As soon as the person died the family would start a party to fool these Evil Spirits into believing the person had got better and had AWAKENED. The children were then send out into the country side to tell the animals and flowers, (it was believed they could contact the Good Spirits), that the person had in fact died and to come a take the soul.