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The social conventions of the time were very important during the mourning period and established the way of behaving. The mourning period was marked by external signs that would gradually fall into disuse (except in the case of our grandmothers, ''amatxi'', who wore black as long as we could remember); the length of that period and its intensity particularly depended on the nature of the deceased (child, adult) and the link with them.
The earliest periods of mourning seemed to involve ceremonies organised by women. There were also “neighbours’ “neighbours' masses”, which the people surveyed could barely be remembered. Those ceremonies were less frequent from ''urthe buruko meza'', the traditional “year-end mass”.
== Legends around death ==