log an bhaithis

Stories were told of how the soul could sometimes be seen, in the shape of a bee, flying out from the mouth of a sleeping person and returning before he awoke. The person might then describe a dream which he had, a dream based on what the soul saw when it had temporarily left the body. A prevalent belief was that, at death, the soul departed through "log an bhaithis": that is "the hollow in the crown of the head"