Curiosities of Olden Times

Curiosities of Olden Times

Curiosities of Olden Times [Pg 1] CURIOSITIES OF OLDEN TIMES A strip of black cloth an inch...
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Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine),1834-1924
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Language: English
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Curiosities of Olden Times

Curiosities of Olden Times

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Curiosities of Olden Times

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Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine),1834-1924
Format: eBook
Language: English

Curiosities of Olden Times

[Pg 1] CURIOSITIES OF OLDEN TIMES A strip of black cloth an inch and a half in width stitched round the sleevethat is the final, or perhaps penultimate expression (for it may dwindle further to a black thread) of the usage of wearing mourning on the decease of a relative. The usage is one that commends itself to us as an outward and visible sign of the inward sentiment of bereavement, and not one in ten thousand who adopt mourning has any idea that it ever possessed a signification of another sort. And yet the correlations of general customof mourning fashions, lead us to the inexorable conclusion that in its inception the practice had quite a different signification from that now attributed to it, nay more, that it is solely because its primitive meaning has been absolutely forgotten, and an entirely novel significance given to it, that mourning is still employed after a death. [Pg 2]Look back through the telescope of anthropology at our primitive ancestors in their naked savagery, and we see them daub themselves with soot mingled with tallow. When the savage assumed clothes and became a civilised man, he replaced the fat and lampblack with black cloth, and this black cloth has descended to us in the nineteenth century as the customary and intelligible trappings of woe. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 41546
Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Release Date: Dec 3, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English

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