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This chapter describes the signs of mourning used by a family to express its sorrow for the death of one of its members during the period of time between the death and the time that the corpse was removed from the home to take it to the church.

This ritual was very common in Iparralde, where the neighbour that went to the church to get the parish cross was usually the first neighbour of the house where the death had occurred. After the cross was taken to the bereaved household, it was the placed in the room where the corpse lay.

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