Funeral customs

Funeral customs: their origin and development

by Puckle, Bertram S.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Funeral customs : their origin and development / by Bertram S. Puckle.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1990.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Omnigraphics
  • Place of Publication:Detroit
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1990.

Notes

Reprint. Originally published: London : T.W. Laurie, 1926.

The Physical Object

  • Description:283 pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1558887504, 9781558887503
  • oclc:ocm20452471
  • LC Classification:GT3150
  • Dewey Decimal:393/.9

Table of Contents

The provisions of nature -- Death warnings: when does death take place? -- Preparation for burial, coffins, "grave-goods", suttee -- Wakes, mutes, wailers, sin-eating, totemism, death-taxes -- Bells, mourning -- Funeral feasts and processions -- Early burial-places -- Churchyards, cemeteries, orientation and other burial customs -- Trees, flowers, body-snatching -- Plague -- State and public funerals -- Cremation, embalming -- In memoriam -- Memorials, epitaphs, rings and mourning cards.

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Subjects

Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies Funeral Rites Funeral rites and ceremonies funerals

Writers

Puckle, Bertram S.

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