Burial Customs -There is evidence that in some cases that the corps were tightly bound before burial.
-There are primitive societies today which practice similar rights.
-The purpose of secularly binding the body is to ensure against return of the dead, or return in a spiritual form.
-They did this because they were worried that the dead would rise and haunt the living.
-The ritual binding of the body at the time of burial is felt to be a deterrent to the return of the spirit as well.
-A motive may have impelled prehistoric man to perform the same rituals on the bodies of the dead.
Burial Customs -There is evidence that in some cases that the corps were tightly bound before burial.
-There are primitive societies today which practice similar rights.
-The purpose of secularly binding the body is to ensure against return of the dead, or return in a spiritual form.
Burial Capt. Redkof, Adrianopele #14 (LOC)
Burial mound in Jelling
Burial Year at Bar en Boos-They did this because they were worried that the dead would rise and haunt the living.
-The ritual binding of the body at the time of burial is felt to be a deterrent to the return of the spirit as well.
-A motive may have impelled prehistoric man to perform the same rituals on the bodies of the dead.
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