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vintagegeekculture · 8 months
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Jules Verne's striking tomb in Amiens shows him breaking out from his own grave and reaching to the sky, a sign of his immortality. Sculptor Albert Roze used Verne's own death mask to make the statue's face.
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transformational · 1 year
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“gravestone in pet cemetery, lisbon” (1998) by nan goldin
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eyesaremosa1cs · 6 months
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wensdaiambrose · 3 months
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Pictures from today's walk through the cemetery.
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veeveetheheretic · 11 days
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taking comfort with the dead.
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hymnsandhearses · 7 months
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Not to be morbid, but what do you want on your gravestone? ☠️
Honestly, because I am immortal, I haven’t given it much thought.
But, off the top of my head, any of the following epitaphs would do:
“I appreciate all of the flowers, but maybe next time you could bring a shovel”
“Sorry I ghosted”
“Don’t freak out, but I am standing right behind you”
“Well, this is embarrassing”
“I never noticed how ugly you are when you cry”
“I am such a mess, I wish you would have told me you were stopping by”
“Oops, turns out everything they said about hell was true”
“So, taxidermy wasn’t an option?”
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hoarderofliterature · 2 months
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let me do it right for once
hey the 2/2 fic is done! enjoy
Words: 5.8k Rating: T Pairing: Gen, Past Akeshuake Tags: Grief/Mourning, Post-Canon Description: On the first anniversary of 2/2, Kurusu Akira visits a grave.
Read it here
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sixminutestoriesblog · 4 months
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cemetery superstitions
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One of the things that sets us apart from the other creatures on this planet is the elaborate care we put into taking care of the bodies of our dead. Some of the earliest instances of human culture anthropologists have found are graves, where the bodies were intentionally arranged and left with gifts or items of beauty or usefulness. Graves, and grave-sites, tell us things about past cultures in ways that no uncovered village or city can. They speak of what kind of value the society of the time placed on individuals - and what value the loved ones of the individual placed on them despite society sometimes. Graves were often a place of treasure, treasure in terms of items left behind and treasure in terms of information about the time period and the people. Humanity, almost universally, holds a residual affection for a body long after the life that filled and animated that body has gone.
Humanity also has a tendency to not always believe that a dead body was quite as dead as it physically seemed. Not every item found in graves over the centuries has been to mark the mourners' sorrow. Sometimes its items to help the dead person into the afterlife. Sometimes its to keep them from coming back from there. Humanity, on the whole, doesn't do the whole 'and then it was over' thing very well.
So it is absolutely no surprise that graveyards, filled with mass groupings of burials, tend to have quickly developed a whole slew of superstitions when it comes to the way the living should act when surrounded by so many of the dead.
I'll save the story about church grims for another time since I want to do a post on Black Dogs but it wouldn't be right for me not to mention that, in English and Nordic tradition, the belief was that the first person buried in a churchyard either went to the Devil or had to stay until Judgement Day to guard against the Devil. In Scotland, this was called the faire chlaidh or the 'graveyard watch' and it was only a temporary position passing from the last person buried to the next for as long as the cemetery was active.
People also wanted to be buried on the south side of a cemetery. Whether coming from the belief that the 'south wind brings corruption' or because the south side is usually the sunnier side of a graveyard, in early times the north side was reserved for criminals, suicides, still-borns and other deaths that were considered, at that point in society, either 'less holy' or more likely to cause trouble once they were buried in the form of hauntings. In fact, even 'unconsecrated' ground still held a vestige of human society and being a part of something. Woe to the person deemed so dangerous or cast-out that they were denied a place in the social gathering and were instead buried at cross-roads or other desolate and lonely places far from the shared comfort of others. To this day, humanity still has a driving need to return bodies for proper burial, whether murder victims or fallen soldiers. Even in death, the societal need is for the safety of being with the group.
Keeping the dead close isn't the same as feeling comfortable around them however. There are a lot of rules for the living when it comes to graveyards.
Always hold your breath when you go past a cemetery or you could be the next to die. In some traditions, hearkening back to God breathing life into Adam's lungs, instead of dying you might instead inhale a soul and no body can survive with two souls inside of it. In Japan, instead of holding your breath, you are supposed to hide your thumbs. The word for 'thumb', sounds a great deal like 'death' and since the thumb is considered the 'parent finger' hiding your thumbs keeps your parents safe. In Hawaii, pointing your finger at a grave is inviting one of the dead to latch on to it and follow you home. In fact, if you're walking in a graveyard and you ever hear footsteps behind you, quickly exit the cemetery and whatever you do, don't look back. If you look back, the spirit following you will see what your face looks like and will be able to find you no matter where you go after that. And, of course, a pregnant mother should never visit a cemetery for the safety of her baby.
The state of the grave can be very important as well. Folklore has it that the grave of a good person will naturally grow wildflowers while the grave of an evil one will only grow weeds. If the ground seems to be trampled down over one particular gravespot, the person buried under it was probably a guardian of some kind in life, like a mother or a community leader. Lost souls wandering the cemetery at night will naturally be drawn to places like this, for comfort and guidance. On that same note, wandering spirits in a graveyard will congregate around music, so singing or playing an instrument in a cemetery should be done with awareness. Whistling however should be foregone completely as 'whistling up a ghost' is always a bad idea and leads to danger for the whistler. The sound of ringing church bells force wandering spirits back into their graves.
Rain during a funeral is considered lucky and a sign that heavens is mourning such a loved soul. A clap of thunder signifies that the demons are throwing a fit at losing the soul to heaven! A sparrow at a funeral is a sign that a departed soul is visiting and the same goes for a butterfly, though butterflies aren't limited to just graveyards for that purpose. Empty, open graves are great for curing various aliments if you walk past them but don't linger. An empty grave is a grave waiting to be filled and you don't want Fate to get any ideas about you that way. Open graves should never be allowed to remain empty past evening either. Firstly, because its a safety hazard and, secondly, because its an open space between the living and the dead that doesn't need to get the chance to solidify that threshold. Funerals should also never take place in the twenty-four hours around Halloween. It's believed that evil is roaming the world at that time and the newly dead souls, still innocent, are easy prey.
And the last rule - for this post at least - when it comes to graveyards is to always be respectful. Don't spit, don't lean on the graves, don't walk over them, don't speak ill of the dead, don't get too involved with your PDA, don't steal flowers from them and don't attempt to visit after hours once the sun has set. Remember - you're just a visitor in their house. Being rude will not go unnoticed - or unpunished.
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2022dirt · 4 months
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Hill of Crosses in Siauliai, Lithuania.
Carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006. It is a major site of Catholic pilgrimage in Lithuania.
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hecatesdelights · 1 month
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Ghouls were a type of Arabic mythological creature that were hideous wraiths, haunting cemeteries at night, and stalking humans to consume their flesh.
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secondsofpleasure · 8 months
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philadelphia gothic / 8.2023
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mgenchanted · 8 months
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Cemetery
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stone-cold-groove · 4 months
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Headstones - cheap.
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wensdaiambrose · 2 months
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The photos from today's walk through the cemetery.
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veeveetheheretic · 8 days
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City Receiving Vault. Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
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iwanttobepersephone · 6 months
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Ok so
I visited a cemetery with my family today
And I took a photo of some graves where I couldn't quite read the text
And now I'm tracing over them in Ibis Paint trying to figure out what it says
And here's three ones that have been "decoded" (second one was done by a friend, third one I got help on)
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