[ **up: [[Manners and customs]] | [[Death (Biology)]]** ] --- # Death and dying - [[Death and dying--China]] --- ## History ### England [[2025-0405. 'All the evidence indicates that the roof is connected to ideas about the beyond.'|‘In England, the ridge tile was called the “soul window”.’]][^1] Noel Williams says that the notion of “female supernatural beings who mark or select the dead may have been an important one in [[Civilisation and culture--Medieval--Anglo-Saxon|Anglo-Saxon]] belief.”[^2] --- ### Germany There was a [[2025-0405. 'All the evidence indicates that the roof is connected to ideas about the beyond.'|’… German custom of removing the body of a suicide from the house through the roof.’]][^3] ----- ### Italy [[2025-0405. 'All the evidence indicates that the roof is connected to ideas about the beyond.'|’In many places … three tiles are removed from the roof in order to ease the passing of the dying person. This allows his or her soul to take flight; this custom was condemned by Bernardino of Siena in the fourteenth century.’]][^4] --- ### Russia [[2025-0405. 'All the evidence indicates that the roof is connected to ideas about the beyond.'|‘In central Russia, roofs were sometimes decorated with two small horses that would be removed when it was learned that a sorcerer was on his deathbed, as this would facilitate his death.’]][^5] --- ### Scandinavia [[2025-0405. 'All the evidence indicates that the roof is connected to ideas about the beyond.'|‘The Scandinavian sagas tell us that revenants scale the roofs and seek to bang or knock on them as they wanted someone to let them in.’]][^6] [^1]: Claude Lecoueux, *[[Lecouteux. 'The Tradition of Household Spirits', 2000.|The Tradition of Household Sprits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. by Jon E. Graham (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 39. [^2]: Max Dashu, [[Dashu. 'Witches and Pagans_ Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100', 2017.|Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100]] (Richmond, CA: Veleda Press, 2017), p. 12. [^3]: Claude Lecoueux, *[[Lecouteux. 'The Tradition of Household Spirits', 2000.|The Tradition of Household Sprits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. by Jon E. Graham (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 39. [^4]: Claude Lecoueux, *[[Lecouteux. 'The Tradition of Household Spirits', 2000.|The Tradition of Household Sprits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. by Jon E. Graham (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 39. [^5]: Claude Lecoueux, *[[Lecouteux. 'The Tradition of Household Spirits', 2000.|The Tradition of Household Sprits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. by Jon E. Graham (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 39. [^6]: Claude Lecoueux, *[[Lecouteux. 'The Tradition of Household Spirits', 2000.|The Tradition of Household Sprits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. by Jon E. Graham (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 39.