CHAPTER XIII

Funeral Rites

The clan one body--The common meal--Eating the dead in antiquity--Among modern savages--Survivals in modern Europe--Funeral feasts--The Sin-eater--Similar customs in other countries--Eating with the dead--Sacramental union with the dead--Smearing with ashes, etc.--Wearing bones and other relics of {viii} the dead--Cutting oneself for the dead--Mutilation--Gifts of hair to the dead--Burial in a common grave--Custom of Ettá.

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