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Nice Trivia Markomaniac !

<<Does anyone know why they bury people barefoot? >>

Do they ?

RE: Honey - probably because honey is the only food that never spoils...

"ROMAN EMPIRE: When an ancient Roman was dying, the oldest surviving male of the family leaned in close to the dying person and attempted to inhale the dying breath (that’s just … not sanitary). They did try and put the fun back in funeral, though. The rites lasted several days and often featured hired mourners and professional dancers. And while most people know that the Romans liked a party, not many are aware of how much they liked fire. Almost all Romans were cremated, and their ashes placed in a columbarium."

www.neatorama.com/2007/01/1...the-world/

What's a "columbarium" I hear you say ?

"Many Romans belonged to funeral societies, called collegia, to ensure proper burial. They would pay monthly dues, which would be employed to cover the cost of funerals for members. Collegia members (provided they were in good standing) were guaranteed a niche in a columbarium. Columbaria were large underground vaults where peoples' cremated remains were placed within small wall niches. Individual niches were frequently marked by memorial plaques and portrait sculptures. "
Source www.umich.edu/%7Ekelseydb...mbarium.html

>>>One of the first things occurred after a member of the community died was the ringing of the church bell.<<<

An old English saying tells us that, "Nine tailors make a man." This is not intended as a slur on tailors, though. The word "tailors" here is derived from a slight corruption of the word "teller", in the sense of counting or "telling" the years of a man's life. The custom was to ring the teller bell nine times to indicate the death of a man and six times for a woman. The "teller" was often also called the "tenor" bell because of it's deep tone. Then the strokes indicating the gender of the deceased would be followed by a slower ringing of one stroke for each of the years of the life that had just ended. In many parishes, those who noted the nine or six strokes and counted the "teller" strokes could often know who had died, simply by remembering who had been sick lately and how old they were. So this curious ceremony had a practical side also,

This information was gleaned from the classic murder mystery, "The Nine Tailors" by Dorothy Sayers, considered by many (including me) to be one of the finest mystery novels ever written. It is also quite informative on the subject of English campanology, as the art of bell-ringing is called. The word derives from the Italian "campanile", meaning a "bell tower." A curious study, but fascinating to those who relish fine details of abstruse topics.

I recommend the novel to any murder mystery fan.

With love under will,

Bob, Adastra,
The Wizzard of Jacksonville

Mad cannibal disease.

Ok, this is some really hip trivia. Y'all have been keeping busy without me around here. :)

according to that link blokey

I'll be buried in goat poo

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