Flowers were placed on Norwegian war graves at St Olaf's Cemetery and also in graveyards in Lyness and Westray. |
The old and disused graveyards present a problem more so, as weeds and brushwood have over the decades taken over. |
This knowledge makes the idea of Victor Frankenstein scavenging graveyards for parts seem less shocking. |
Free trade unpeoples villages and peoples poorhouses, consolidates farms, and gluts the graveyards with famished corpses. |
For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water. |
People imagined that the ghosts or spirits of the dead were to be encountered in the fields, the boreens and graveyards, once darkness falls. |