Re: Curious Local Customs
It is regional funerary custom that a patch of flesh is over the heart is filleted from the body of the recently dead. It is cooked by the priest who performed funerary services and small strips are given to family members and in rare occasions very close family friends during the funeral service as a symbol of the dead living on in the ones that love them. Refusing the 'last meal' of the departed is a serious breach of funeral custom and something people have been cast out of their family for.
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