Across Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Brittany and beyond, people have long told stories of ghostly hearses, black coaches and funeral processions seen before a death has happened. Sometimes the sound of wheels is heard on an empty road, sometimes mourners pass silently along an old church path, and sometimes a hearse appears in a mirror before vanishing without trace.

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https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/folklore/folklore_survey/chapter3.htm

https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/folklore/folklore_survey/index.htm

https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ffcc/ffcc121.htm

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34853

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53915

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/folklore-in-the-landscape-the-case-of-corpse-paths/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1751696X.2020.1815291

https://www.electriccanadian.com/history/novascotia/folklore/chapter04.htm

https://www.electriccanadian.com/history/novascotia/folklore/chapter05.htm

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1987.9716401

https://experts.mcmaster.ca/scholarly-works/217294

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