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Updated: June 13, 2025
An evil spirit was attracted by fasting and remaining for days and nights alone in burial-grounds, till the brain was maddened and infatuated, when the artificial demoniac prophesied and performed sundry miracles. The transportation to heaven or paradise was more difficult.
I would be loath to lie in one of your Yankee graveyards, for I have a distaste for them, though I love you, my slayer. Bury me here, on this very spot. A soldier lies best where he falls." "Here, in secret?" exclaimed Septimius. "Yes; there is no consecration in your Puritan burial-grounds," said the dying youth, some of that queer narrowness of English Churchism coming into his mind.
They were buried in this place; and I believe that this is the last instance on record of the ancient Japanese custom of Junshi, that is to say, "dying with the master." At Uyéno is the second of the burial-grounds of the Shoguns.
All of them have quitted the world, and taken up their abode in the burial-grounds and the graves. And the Emeer Moosa wrote down all this. Then he went forth, and took not with him from the palace aught save the table. The soldiers proceeded, with the Sheikh Abd-Es-Samad before them shewing them the way, until all the first day had passed, and the second, and the third.
Cooper, in explaining the causes of some epidemics, remarks that the opening of the plague burial-grounds at Eyam resulted in an immediate outbreak of disease. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, NO. 3, VOL. 135. In an address before the Chicago Medical Society, in advocacy of cremation, Dr. Charles W. Purdy made some striking comparisons to show what a burden is laid upon society by the burial of the dead:
Florent mounts in a semi-circle behind Bastia through orange-groves and vineyards, and the tiny private burial-grounds so dear to Corsican families of position.
That was as we were taught. With us, the hand is not lifted until the head has spoken. But as it turned out, between Tallegewi and Lenape, the fighters had the best of it." He sighed, making the salutation to the dead as he looked off, across the burial-grounds, to the crumbling heap of the god-house. "But I don't understand," said Dorcas; "were Ongyatasse and White Quiver friends or enemies?"
Let us have one look at poor Benjamin's grave, said I. His bones lie where his body was laid so long ago, and where the stone says they lie, which is more than can be said of most of the tenants of this and several other burial-grounds. Many years ago, when this disgraceful process was going on under my eyes, I addressed an indignant remonstrance to a leading journal.
A more healthy system now prevails, and we seldom or never find anything in the way of ornament, emblem, or inscription of an offensive or ridiculous character placed in any of our burial-grounds, the Burial Boards being as strict and watchful over the cemeteries as the rectors and vicars are in the management of the churchyards.
"Perhaps," said Laurence, "if they had found no need of burial-grounds here, they would have been glad, after a few years, to go back to England." Grandfather looked at Laurence, to discover whether he knew how profound and true a thing he had said. Not long after Grandfather had told the story of his great chair, there chanced to be a rainy day.
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