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The Bellman of the Dead
The custom in France until the middle of the 18th century was for a man to go about the streets dressed in a deacon’s robe, death’s head, bones and tears. He would cry for the sleepers to awake and remember the dead. To pray to God for their souls.
The Bellman of the Dead. Julie Kwiatkowski Schuler