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AT A POLISH FUNERAL, THE HYMN "WITLAG KROLOVO" IS
ALWAYS SUNG INSTEAD OF THE TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC
"IN PARADISO" AS THE BODY IS BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE
CHURCH. THIS IS A SONG TO MARY. THE PEOPLE PETITION
MARY IN THE SONG TO MEET THE SOUL OF THE DECEASED IN
HEAVEN.
AT THE BURIAL, FLOWER PETALS ARE PLACED ON THE CASKET
BY ALL THE MOURNERS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-15-1971
IN MY FAMILY THE DRESS OF THE DEAD IS ALWAYS
SOMETHING THAT WAS A REMINDER OF HAPPY TIMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
POLISH FUNERAL CUSTOM
THE SPOUSE, AS A PROOF OF HIS/HER LOVE, BURIES THE
WIFE/HUSBAND ROYALLY; IF THEY SCRIMP THEY DID
NOT REALLY LOVE EACH OTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 02-20-1971
IN THE HINDU RELIGION, WHEN YOU DIE, YOU ARE
SUPPOSED TO BE CREMATED AND YOUR ASHES THROWN IN
THE GANGES RIVER.
Where learned: LITTLE CAFE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-06-1971
KEEP THE FAMILY TOGETHER, EVEN TO A FAMILY BURIAL SPOT.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-03-1971
AMONG THE UKRANIANS, OLD FRIENDS OF THE DECEASED HAVE
AN IMPORTANT PART TO PLAY IN THE FUNERAL. THEY GATHER
IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH, HOLDING LIGHTED CANDLES,
AND ACCOMPANY THE PROCESSION WITH THE BODY INTO THE
CHURCH. THEY STOP THREE TIMES IN THE PROCESSION,
STOPPING AT THREE OF THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS. THEY
ACCOMPANY THE BODY OUT OF THE CHURCH AS WELL.
AT THE WAKE, AS WELL AS THE FUNERAL, ALL OLD FRIENDS
OF THE DECEASED NORMALLY GO TO THE CASKET AND MAKE
A BLESSING OVER THE BODY. THUS, THIS FUNCTION OF
BLESSING IS NOT RESERVED ONLY FOR THE CLERGY, BUT ALSO
FOR FRIENDS OF THE DEAD PERSON.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
IN THE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH BEFORE THE CASKET IS
CLOSED, A WHITE CLOTH, USUALLY SILK, IS PLACED ON
THE FACE OF THE DECEASED. WINE IS THEN POURED ON
THE CLOTH.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THAT WINE MAKES THE BODY DECAY QUICKER
AND THUS, THE SOUL ASCENDS TO HEAVEN QUICKER. IT IS
STILL PRACTICED TODAY, BY ALL EASTERN ORTHODOX PRIESTS
ALTHOUGH MOST ORTHODOX DO NOT BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-07-1971
THE FAMILY OF THE DECEASED INDIVIDUAL SHOULD NEVER
GIVE AWAY THE PERSONAL BELONGINGS UNTIL HE HAD BEEN
DEAD SIX WEEKS. IF THEY DO, THEY MIGHT OFFEND THE
DEAD.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THAT MANY PEOPLE IN HER NATIVE TOWN
IN ROMANIA BELIEVED THIS. IN FACT, SHE RELATED, MANY
WOULD WAIT AS LONG AS FIVE YEARS BEFORE GIVING AWAY
THE PERSONAL BELONGINGS OF SOMEONE WHO DIED IN
THEIR FAMILY. MM ALWAYS SLIP A COIN IN THE CASKET OF A LOVED ONE. IT WILL HELP YOU TO STOP GRIEVING.
INFORMANT SAID THAT THIS IS A FAVORITE CUSTOM OF
TYPSIES. RECALLED HEARING IT FROM A GYPSY AS A
CHILD IN ROMANIA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-26-1971
FUNERAL CUSTOM
IT IS A LEBANESE CUSTOM TO HAVE CHANTERS OR "MOURNERS"
AS THEY WERE CALLED, TO SING HYMNS AT THE SIDE OF THE
DECEASED AS PEOPLE PAID THEIR RESPECTS. HOWEVER,
THESE GROUPS WERE NEVER ORGANIZED OR PRE-PLANNED.
PEOPLE WOULD JUST SING WHATEVER THEY WANT WHEN THEY WANTED
AT THE WAKE. HOWEVER, SOME PEOPLE ORGANIZED THEIR OWN
"MOURNING" GROUPS AND THEY WOULD GO TO ANY AND EVERY
WAKE AND CHANT HYMNS FOR PEOPLE THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW
AND THEY WOULD TAKE DONATIONS. THEY WOULD SHOW UP
EVERYWHERE AND THEY FINALLY GOT THE NAME OF "PROFESSION-
AL MOURNERS." IF NO ONE WOULD MOURN AT THE WAKE ON
THEIR OWN, THEY WOULD MOURN FOR MONEY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-17-1971
WHEN SOMEONE DIES, YOU SHOULD COVER ALL MIRRORS IN THE
HOUSE, SO THAT YOU WILL NOT SEE A REFLECTION OF THE
DEAD PERSON.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-00-1971
WHEN SOMEBODY DIED NO ONE WOULD GO TO THE FUNERAL. THEY
WENT THE ROUNDS INSTEAD. (THEY DID THIS TO NOTIFY
PEOPLE OF THE DEATH BECAUSE THERE WERE NO NEWSPAPERS
TO LET THE PEOPLE KNOW.) THE ROSARY WAS SAID IN THE
DEAD MAN'S HOUSE. NO ONE WOULD GO TO THE BURIAL WITHOUT
A BLACK SUIT OR BLACK DRESS. THE PEOPLE WERE VERY FRIENDLY
AND IF A FAMILY DID NOT HAVE A BLACK SUIT FOR THE OCCASION,
THEY WOULD BORROW IT; THIS WAS VERY COMMON. ALSO BLACK
WAS WORN FOR WEDDINGS.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT TOLD ME THAT PEOPLE THEN ONLY HAD ONE GOOD
SUIT AND IT WAS BLACK AND HE ALSO SHOWED ME SOME WEDDING
PICTURES OF HIS RELATIVES WHO WORE BLACK ON THEIR WEDDING
DAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Marriage CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
THE FLEMISH DON'T BELIEVE IN SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY
ON COFFINS. THE COFFINS ARE USUALLY ROUGH BOARDS
WITHOUT ANY LINING INSIDE THEM, ALSO THERE IS NO
EMBALMING THE BODY. WHEN THERE WAS A DEATH, THE BODY
WOULD LIE ON A TABLE, WRAPPED IN A SHEET OR ELSE BE
LYING IN THE BED. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE FUNERAL, THEY
WOULD SWITCH THE BODY TO THE COFFIN. UNTIL THEN, YOU
WOULD NEVER LEAVE A DEAD BODY ALONE, YOU KEPT A WAKE.
SOMEONE WAS ALWAYS WITH THE BODY, THEY WOULD PUT A
PRAYER BOOK UNDER THE CHIN TO KEEP THE MOUTH FROM
OPENING AND RIGOR MORTIS FROM SETTING IN, THEY WOULD
ALSO HAVE SOMETHING ON THE EYES TO KEEP THEM SHUT.
FOR THE FUNERAL, A PERSON WOULD GO AND TALK TO A
FARMER WHO HAD TWO HORSES AND HE WOULD VOLUNTEER TO TAKE
THE BODY TO AND FROM THE CHURCH IN HIS WAGON (THERE
WERE NO HEARSES), AND ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL THEY
PUT THE BODY IN THE WAGON AND TWO WOMEN WOULD SIT IN
FRONT AND TWO WOMEN SAT BEHIND, THE REST OF THE PEOPLE
WOULD WALK. AT EACH CROSSROAD THAT THEY PASSED, THE
NEIGHBORS HAD PUT A STRAW CROSS IN THE TREE. AND IT WAS
SAID THAT IN THE MORNING OF THE FUNERAL, THE FARMER
WOULD GO AND TALK TO THE HORSES AND BLESS THEM WITH
PALMS AND HOLY WATER. (MR. VALKEN HAD NEVER SEEN THIS
DONE WITH THE HORSES, BUT HE HAD HEARD OF IT AND
BELIEVED IT TO BE TRULY DONE).
WHEN YOU ENTER THE CEMETERY, A MAN WOULD STAND BY THE
GATE AND PASS OUT A FLOWER TO EACH PERSON AS THEY
ENTERED AND THEN THE FAMILY DROPPED THEIR FLOWERS ON
TOP OF THE COFFIN AND THEN THE REST OF THE PEOPLE
WOULD FOLLOW SUIT.
BECAUSE THEY WERE SO RELIGIOUS, DYING DIDN'T MEAN SO
MUCH. THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO A BETTER PLACE.
Submitter comment:
I TRIED TO REPEAT THIS AS MR. VALKEN TOLD IT TO ME.
HE ADDED THAT THE DAY AFTER THE FUNERAL, THE STRAW
CROSSES WERE TAKEN DOWN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-20-1971
WHEN ONE PASSES A GRAVEYARD THEY MUST HOLD THEIR BREATH
TILL THEY HAVE COMPLETELY PASSED IT BY.
Submitter comment:
I DID THIS WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I DON'T KNOW WHERE I
LEARNED IT, AND I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU
IF YOU DIDN'T. I DON'T BELIEVE IN IT, BECAUSE
NOTHING EVER HAPPENS TO ME WHEN I PASS GRAVEYARDS
AND DON'T HOLD MY BREATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IT IS THE CUSTOM IN NEWFOUNDLAND WHEN ATTENDING A
FUNERAL TO THROW A HANDFUL OF GROUND ON THE CASKET
OF THE DEAD PERSON WHEN IT IS SET IN THE GROUND.
Submitter comment:
THIS IS STILL DONE TODAY IN NEWFOUNDLAND, WITHOUT
FAIL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-00-1971
MY FATHER SAID THAT WHEN HE WAS IN THE ARMY AND A
JEWISH SOLDIER WAS KILLED, THAT THEY WOULD BURY
HIM WITH THE STAR OF DAVID ON HIS GRAVE INSTEAD
OF A CROSS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
WHEN SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY DIES YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO
STOP THE CLOCK AND COVER ALL MIRRORS IN THE HOUSE
UNTIL AFTER THEY ARE BURIED.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HAD NOT DONE THIS, SINCE SHE HAD BEEN
LIVING IN MICHIGAN, BUT IN JULY, 1971 WHEN SHE WENT
TO HER GRANDMOTHER'S FUNERAL IN GEORGIA, ALL OF HER
RELATIVES HAD STOPPED THEIR CLOCKS AND HAD COVERED
THEIR MIRRORS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-18-1971
THERE IS AN ITALIAN CUSTOM, THAT IF A MEMBER OF
A FAMILY DIES, THEN THE MEMBERS OF THE IMMEDIATE
FAMILY WEAR BLACK AS A SIGN OF MOURNING FOR 3 TO
6 MONTHS.
Submitter comment: I WAS TOLD THIS BY MY PARENTS ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; PORT CHESTER
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE IRISH WAKE CONSISTS OF COMING OVER TO THE HOUSE
OF THE DEPARTED, PAYING RESPECTS TO THE FAMILY
OF THE DEPARTED, AND THEN DRINKING FOR THREE DAYS
BEFORE THE FUNERAL.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT WAS TOLD THIS BY HIS DAD WHEN HE WAS ABOUT
12 IN 1961-62.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-15-1970
IN THE SOUTH, THE PERSON WHO DIED WOULD BE LAID OUT
IN THE HOME AND THE FAMILY WOULD SIT UP ALL NIGHT
WITH THE PERSON LAID OUT.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS DONE AT THE INFORMANT'S FAMILY IN THE
1900S IN THE SOUTH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 10-12-1970
KOLIVA, A WHEAT DISH, IS PASSED OUT TO RELATIVES AND
FRIENDS FORTY DAYS AFTER THE DEATH OF A LOVED ONE,
TO INSURE EVERLASTING LIFE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Death Funeral Burial |
Date learned: 11-19-1971