Sometimes it was left to be disposed of by the deity or spirit or dead person at his pleasure.
In another direction the earthly dwelling of a dead person is protected--a curse is pronounced on one who violates it.
There can, finally, be no doubt that the widespread prohibition of mentioning the name of a dead person[238] does not in the first instance arise from respect for the departed, but from fear.
In Upper Bavaria, when a dead person is laid out, a cake of flour is placed on his breast in order to absorb the virtues of the deceased, whereupon the cake is eaten by the nearest relatives.
When spirit came to be generally used, ghost came to have the special meaning which it has for us now--that of the apparition of a dead person.
Not only will they not mention the subject of death in plain words, but some will not even mention the name of a dead person or give that name to a new-born child, so that in some tribes names die out in this way.
The corpse of a dead person is sewn up in a kind of sack.
The corpse of a dead personis washed, not at the house, but at the burning-ground.
A Brahman is seated to represent the pretha or dead person, and fed after going through sradh rites.
First he puts aside the souls of dead people, of which there are usually several; for if he were to give the soul of a dead person to a living man, the man would die instantly.
Thus, of some Indian tribes on the north-west coast of America it is said that they may not speak the name of a dead person "until the bones are finally disposed of.
The Resurrection of a Dead Person is the Work of God only 247 II.
That as soon as they suspect a dead person of having sent them this illness, they inform the magistrate of it, who, on the deposition of some witnesses, causes the dead body to be exhumed.
To mark the value of obedience and the respect due to it, God was pleased to permit a dead person to obey the orders of a superior, as if he had been living.
For they do not conceal the fact that they fear the presence and the return of the spirit of a dead person; they practise a host of ceremonies to keep him off and banish him[75].
Thus it no longer seems strange to us that savages should consider a dead person's name as a part of his personality and that it should be subjected to the same taboo as the deceased.
Calling a dead person by name can also be traced back to contact with him, so that we can turn our attention to the more inclusive problem of why this contact is visited with such a severe taboo.
They therefore consistently do everything to avoid conjuring and awakening a dead person.
Obstinate pains in the chest, the wizard says, must be caused by some enemy having put a dead person's hair', or bone in it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dead person" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
