That was really cool and fascinating. Great photos too.
Thank you very much! I'm so glad you enjoyed both the report and the photos! :-D
I had no idea about those cemetary superstitions. We don't have those, I think.
I'm assuming they were British superstitions that were adopted by Canadians as well because Canada was a British colony. I think I might have heard the one about removing your hat at a graveside before, but the rest of them were completely new to me. It's really interesting how superstitious the Victorians were about death, but probably not surprising. Death was very much a reality for them with things like infant mortality, influenza and cholera outbreaks, consumption, workplace accidents...
The only one I can think of related to cemetaries is the one where our ancestors used to put fir tree branches on the road between the cemetary and the dead person's home on the day of the funeral so he/she wouldn't return home again as a ghost.
Oh, wow! Now that's really interesting! It's a bit similar to the superstition in which you pick up an object and then drop it again to stop a ghost from following you home from the cemetery, only a lot more fascinating! Thanks for sharing that! :-)
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Thank you very much! I'm so glad you enjoyed both the report and the photos! :-D
I had no idea about those cemetary superstitions. We don't have those, I think.
I'm assuming they were British superstitions that were adopted by Canadians as well because Canada was a British colony. I think I might have heard the one about removing your hat at a graveside before, but the rest of them were completely new to me. It's really interesting how superstitious the Victorians were about death, but probably not surprising. Death was very much a reality for them with things like infant mortality, influenza and cholera outbreaks, consumption, workplace accidents...
The only one I can think of related to cemetaries is the one where our ancestors used to put fir tree branches on the road between the cemetary and the dead person's home on the day of the funeral so he/she wouldn't return home again as a ghost.
Oh, wow! Now that's really interesting! It's a bit similar to the superstition in which you pick up an object and then drop it again to stop a ghost from following you home from the cemetery, only a lot more fascinating! Thanks for sharing that! :-)