These include the placement of an effigy atop a bier and sarcophagus, framed by weighty pillars and a triumphal arch.
The chief mourner walks ahead of the bier, taking fire in a porcelain pot.
It contains benefaction boards, a bier, font, bell and memorials on the walls.
Hundreds attended, many of them weeping, and the bier was guarded by policemen and firemen.
An egg would be broken and a nail driven into the floor beneath the bier of the house of a recently deceased person.
He would escape, at one point taking the place of a dead body on a bier.
He blesses and consecrates the cradle, the bridal chamber, the bed of death, and the bier.
There is a funeral bier dating from 1597.
