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Then the head bounces back to the grave and returns to its body. Next, four skeletons emerge from the grave and start dancing. One of them takes two bones and plays its partner's spine and head to produce music. Another skeleton dances alone and then plays a cat's tail as if it were a violin. The crowing of a rooster tells them it's close to dawn.
"The Hearse Song" is a piece of folklore with an unusually large number of variants, created over several generations. Carl Sandburg, in his 1927 book American Songbag, printed two early variations, the first being: [7] The Old Grey Hearse goes rolling by, You don't know whether to laugh or cry; For you know some day it'll get you too,
Grave of the Fireflies (Japanese: 火垂るの墓, Hepburn: Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Japanese animated historical war drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata, and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka .
In the modern day, the funeral procession is no longer common or practiced in the same way. Now a hearse is used to transport the body to the gravesite. The procession consists of carrying the casket from the church to the hearse and then from the hearse to the gravesite once at the cemetery.
The hearse paused outside St Giles’ Cathedral, where a minute’s silence was held and the all-female 100-piece Sound House Choir sang a number of songs in tribute to the star.
Unlike the animated version, however, it tells the story from the point of view of their cousin (their aunt's daughter) and also deals with the issue of how the war-time environment could change a kind lady into a hard-hearted woman. The film stars Nanako Matsushima as the aunt and Mao Inoue in a dual role as the cousin and the cousin's ...
The new Royal Claret state hearse has wide windows along the side and back, a see-through glass roof and lights inside to illuminate the coffin. Queen consulted on design of bespoke state hearse ...
The Gashadokuro is a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation/famine (while the corpse becomes a gashadokuro, the spirit becomes a separate yōkai, known as hidarugami.), and is 10 or more meters tall.