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.