Shroud

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Epitaph , at the feet of the cross a child in a shroud, painting by Lukas Cranach the Elder. Ä.

The death shirt is a white, mostly decorated shirt that is used to dress the dead . This used to be a long tunic belonging to the dead . Today the undertaker usually dresses the deceased with his own clothes for the funeral .

In Scottish folklore there is the legend of the bean-nighe ( “washerwomen at the ford” ). According to legend, these are the spirits of mothers who have died in childbirth and wash their children's shrouds.

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