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In modern times the practice of leaving coins for the dead has been primarily for the military graves. [3] The practice of leaving coins at military personnel grave markers is primarily both American and Canadian tradition.
So thoroughly are people taken in by all of this that when one of the family dies, immediately they bring an obol and put it into his mouth to pay the ferryman for setting him over, without considering what sort of coinage is customary and current in the lower world and whether it is the Athenian or the Macedonian or the Aeginetan obol that is ...
Visitation stones on Jewish headstones. Marking a grave with stones was customary in Biblical times before the adoption of gravestones. [2] [1] The oldest graves in the Old Cemetery in Safed are piles of rocks with a more prominent rock bearing an inscription.
Why Do Some People Put Toilet Paper in the Fridge? View the original article to see embedded media. Believe it or not, some people are putting toilet paper in the fridge to absorb odors.
Some people hang stockings over their fireplace, put up outdoor lights (hopefully with more success than Clark Griswold!), string up garland on staircases and banisters, set out coveted seasonal ...
Notes wedged into the cracks of the Western Wall. The earliest account of placing prayer notes into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall was recounted by Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira of Munkatch (d. 1937) and involved Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar (d. 1743) who instructed a destitute man to place an amulet between the stones of the Wall.
SEE MORE: Why do we wear wedding rings? When it comes to diamonds, the popular opinion is often the bigger the better. That might be because the stone's name comes from the Greek word adamas, or ...
Open burial vault awaiting coffin (2006). A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking.