Tootfinder

For most human societies, for 10s of 1000s of years (unlike the typical current western version) death was a process, not an event. The rituals surrounding a death existed to guide the decedent from this world to whatever came next. Rituals done wrongly, or not at all, could result in the dead returning, often cranky or angry or worst case, malevolent. This often happened in times of political or religious or medical turmoil, resulting in pandemics of