henna on the deceased?

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Posted by jocelyne on February 05, 2000 at 10:02:27:

In Reply to: Masada? posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on February 04, 2000 at 03:09:11:

Would henna colour take on the skin of a deceased person? There would
be no body warmth to help the process...


: I asked Roy what siege Josephus or Juvenal would have covered , and
he
: said it would have been Masada. In that case, it is also possible
that
: the henna was part of those people preparing themselves for death.
It
: is not unusual for there to be a tradition that a deceased person
be
: hennaed "that when they appear before the Angels Examinants, they
may
: be found more neat and handsome" ... (BMSA again, from a 1669 test)



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