Like a Mournful Gust of Wind Watchers over the corpse of a young woman are haunted by a mysterious moaning noise.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 14, 2017
in Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged aural hauntings , Like a Mournful Gust of Wind , Like a Prolonged Mournful Gust of Wind , Massachusetts ghost story , mourning customs , New England ghost story , night watch , supernatural Massachusetts , wake , waking the corpse , waking the dead , watching the corpse
Weekend Compendium: 16 January 2016
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 16, 2016
in Costume History , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , lethal clothing , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , extravagant funerals , French couture , French models , frozen ghosts , frozen to death , funeral jobs , funeral service , mannequins , Minnesota ghosts , mourning customs , mourning professions , poisoned stockings , Spiritualism , weekend compendium
Fiends for a Funeral: The Amateur Mourners The bizarre, pseudo-sympathetic world of the Edwardian funeral fancier.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 3, 2014
in Ephemera , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Strange Lives
and tagged 1910 funeral , Fiends for a Funeral: The Amateur Mourners , funeral rites , mourners , mourning customs , professional mourners , undertakers , Victorian mourning
Mourning becomes elective Some musings on Victorian mourning customs, historic calls for funerary reforms, and a modest proposal for a return to formal mourning.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 29, 2012
in Costume History , Death , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged costume history , crape , funerals , mourning becomes elective , mourning costume , mourning customs , mourning rituals , Victorian costume , Victorian mourning
