Preparations for burial — Mythoi

Motif

Preparations for burial.

Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V68

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Icelandic Lagerholm 33, *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Funeral rites.

5 finer motifs beneath it

Dead washed (in river) Dead washed and hair combed Dying hero wants to be buried in the clothes of his brother who killed him Dead is undressed Dead rubbed with red paint

Filed beside it

Stones sold at funeral wakes Funeral rites by druids Various ways of disposing of dead Restrictions on burial Bones of dismembered person assembled and buried. (Cf. E30.) Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burial Commemoration of death Funeral sermon Accompaniments of burial. (Cf. V61.3.0.1.) Funeral rites – miscellaneous

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