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June Girvin's avatar

Great post, though it threatened to rekindle one of my irrational oldest fears (that of being buried alive). Dante and Virgil look rather unconcerned by the shenanigans going on around them - like disapproving sober people at a drunken street brawl!

I like the sound of Dracula daily...

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Dennis Fischman's avatar

I wonder why this cultural panic appeared at that moment, in those places? Jews had been putting bodies into the ground very soon after death for centuries, and if there was ever any comparable anxiety, I am not aware of it.

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