Heriotza eta heriotzaren inguruko ohitura batzuk

Abstract

Basing on the ethnography, we will see the different ways death has been felt and expressed in some little communities close to us. In this way, the bell, the funeral wake, making knows to the animals of the farms, keeping the windows closed while the corpse is within the house, covering the shield of the house front with a black cloth... are described in the article. Furthermore, some customs related with the conduction of the corpse: a neighbor of the dead man or woman leading the conduction, contracting women to cry, the important role of the nun, the offerings after the funeral (bread, wine, bullocks, sheeps...), the accompaniment to the corpse up to the cemetery, and, once there, throwing ground or little stones on, the continuity of the religious acts in a very well supplied table, the prolongation of the relationship between dead and alive people.