Coffin roads fascinate me, and given they existed as a reaction to Christianity (can only bury your loved ones in consecrated ground) how they also spun their own non-Christian lore – can’t let the coffin touch the ground lest it become “hungry grass” dooming anyone who treads on it to eternal hunger (hence these stones), that the body had to be carried feet-first to stop the spirit running back home, etc…
Only one I’ve walked is from Balloch to Cardross but that’s a fairly short one. Can’t imagine how it must have been doing the longer ones carrying a coffin and corpse without letting it touch the ground!
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Coffin roads fascinate me, and given they existed as a reaction to Christianity (can only bury your loved ones in consecrated ground) how they also spun their own non-Christian lore – can’t let the coffin touch the ground lest it become “hungry grass” dooming anyone who treads on it to eternal hunger (hence these stones), that the body had to be carried feet-first to stop the spirit running back home, etc…
Only one I’ve walked is from Balloch to Cardross but that’s a fairly short one. Can’t imagine how it must have been doing the longer ones carrying a coffin and corpse without letting it touch the ground!
Look at this dog, as happy as a cucumber
That should be a King Creosote song.