The Victorian era of British history (1837-101) was one of the most progressive epochs of human history. I would have liked to live in this period of time, thanks to the many changes in society and technology popping up left and right. He was also a time known for great literature and theater. Oh, how I wish I could have lived!
However, it was also still ripe with strange, morbid traditions regarding death. Some of them are scary. Proceed at your own risk.
1.) Coal jewelry.
James St. John
When someone died in Victorian England, women were banned from wearing mourning jewelry. Instead, they wore a fossilized form of coal, known as lignite or jet. Talk morbid.
2.) Hair of the Dead.
Alisha Vargas
After the first phase of mourning was completed, women were allowed to carry one piece of jewelry. This piece of jewelry should either contain, or be, the deceased loved hair. This is just plain serious.
3.) Cover the mirrors.
Kevin Dooley
When someone died in a Victorian household, all the mirrors in the house had to be covered. I'm not sure what it accomplished, but it was believed that if a mirror fell and broke, death would soon come for someone else in the house.
Organizations should also be removed from the head of the first house. This was to prevent them from waving the others to follow.
4.) Alarms Coffin.
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Since the Victorian medicine was not very advanced, people are always afraid of being buried alive. Enter the alarm coffin. It was a chain that ran the finger of the corpse through the soil, to a bell on the tombstone. I wonder if it actually worked.
5.) Death portraits.
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death portraits were painted before the invention of the camera. During the Victorian era, however, it has become customary to have died of photographs. I can not imagine how frightening it was to pose for a picture with the body of the death of a loved one.
6.) Play dead look alive.
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death portraits existed have something to remember the deceased by. To achieve this, photographers have tried to make the death look as alive as possible. This extremely frightening practice involved placing the body, having held their favorite object, and / or propping open their eyes.
7.) Veils of mourning and Hats.
Lisby
Widows traditionally wore a heavy cap and sailing for the first three months of mourning. After three months, they could remove the veil, but had to take the blame for nine months. Some widows were what we called weeds widow, another form of mourning dress, until two years after the death of their husband
Via :. Mother Nature Network
I take back what I said about wanting to live in the Victorian era. They were just too morbid. I do not think I could ever ask with a dead body for a picture
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