Superstition of the Week - Funeral Customs

Funeral Customs

In Victorian times when the wake or funeral was held in the decease’s home, all their pictures would be covered because it was believed that if you looked at their reflection in the photo, they might try to beckon you to come join them on the other side.

We learned this custom from "In The Dead of Winter" tour at Four Mile Historic Park.

Cool Stuff About Ravens

Bilingual Ravens

Cherokee....Kalanu
Cree....Kahka'kwi
English....Raven
Danish....Ravn
Dutch....Raaf
Finnish....Korppi
French....Corbeau
Gaelic....Bran
German....Rabe
Greek....Korax
Hopi....Adoko
Icelandic....Hrafn
Inuit....Tulugaq
Irish....Fiach
Italian....Corvo
Japanese....Karasu
Latin....Corvus
Polish....Kruk
Portuguese....Corvo
Scots Gaelic....Fitheach, Fhitich
Spanish....Cuervo
Swedish....Korp
Turkish....Kuzgun
Welsh....Cigfran
Yiddish....Woron
Zuni....Kotollo-ah

Happy Birthday Edward Gorey

Happy Birthday Edward Gorey from The Curious Curse & Finn along with everyone here at the Edible Raven

Superstition of the Week - Cemetery Segregation

Cemetery Segregation

In a Christian graveyard, bodies are buried with the head to the west and the feet to the east but the basic division has always been between the north and south. The left-hand side of the alter (north) was called the gospel side for sinners, the right-side (south) was the epistle side for the righteous. So the unclean dead were buried to the north of the graveyard.

Cool Stuff We Found With Ravens On It

Baltimore-Washington Beer Works The Raven

Happy Valentine's Day

Wishing You a Ravenous Valentine's Day...

P.S. If you need a ravenous gift tag for your sweetheart's gift this Valentine's Day, you might want to check out the free printable gift tags from All Us All the Time ;).

Superstition of the Week - Upside Down

To place the corpse face downwards has a special significance. This mode of burial was held to be a means of preventing trouble from a witch after death.

Cool Stuff We Found With Ravens On It

Raven Creek Music, original music and instruments.

Superstition of the Week - Irish Funeral Procession

In Ireland if a funeral procession passes a church on the way to the cemetery, the mourners must circle the church no fewer than three times before proceeding to the graveyard, or else the corpse and pallbearers will be cursed.

Cool Stuff We Found With Ravens On It

Entwined Ravens

Yes, these love birds are a Valentine creation from All Us All the Time.