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Story: Sleeping in ashes

Title

Sleeping in ashes

Collection

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

Summary

Tamme's father's heart aches so his mother tells his father to sleep in ashes. His father does as she says and becomes white from the ashes.

Comments

1) See also Customs at death and Burial, 2) This story is found in Book XI & XII-3

Contributors

Tamme (XII)

Date

4 January 1879

Categories

History (personal), Custom and daily life

Keywords

death (!kun customs at) , death (of !kun) , death (and sleeping in ashes) , death (Tamme's father's heart ached and he slept in ashes) , death (and mourning) , ashes (and !kun customs at death) , ashes (sleeping in) , ashes (Tamme's father becomes white with) , ashes (and Tamme's father's aching heart) , ashes (Tamme's father slept there) , Tamme (his personal history) , Tamme (his father slept in ashes) , Tamme (his father's aching heart) , heart (Tamme's father's aching) , heart (and sleeping in ashes) , heart (and grief) , heart (and death) , sleep (!kun customs at death) , sleep (sleeping in ashes)

Story Pages

9211

Page Images

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Book: BC_151_A2_1_111