With Halloween around the corner, this week seems like a good time to talk a bit about burial customs for the most vulnerable of our ancestors. In the past, we have covered several related topics, and you might want to check out some of them before we move into looking at how some infants, children, and poor people were treated at the ends of their lives.
“Did Our Ancestors Trick or Treat?” 25 October 2021
“Funeral Rituals and Traditions, Part 1” 19 April 2021
“Funeral Rituals and Traditions, Part II” 26 April 2021
“Broken Mirrors and Spilled Salt: Some of our Ancestors’ Superstitions,” 26 October 2020
