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band by themselves in the Village of the Dead in the West. 

 The other souls were afraid of them. At Rome, burial 

 was the older practice, and when burning was adopted as 

 a general practice, some families preferred inhumation. 

 The dictator Sulla was the first of the great Cornelian 

 gens to be burned in the funeral pyre, and this was done 

 in order that his body might not fall into the hands of his 

 deadly enemies the Marians. 



Sometimes we find in the same tomb a buried skeleton 

 along with the charred remains of a cremated corpse. 

 Sometimes, as at Myrina, in Asia Minor, and at Hallstatt, 

 in Austria, there are instances of partial cremation where 

 the head, or trunk, or part of the body is burnt and the 

 rest buried.* 



In the barrows of this country it is said by Canon 

 Greenwell that no rule can be laid down as to inhumation 

 and cremation. The proportion of burnt to buried 

 remains varies in different districts. Different modes of 

 disposing of the dead can clearly exist side by side. 

 Inconsistent beliefs can also exist at the same time. 

 As in ancient Greece, men can believe in Hades and the 

 Isles of the Blessed, and yet make offerings at the tomb 

 as if it still had a tenant. The beliefs belong to 

 different strata as it were, but are maintained together in 

 spite of their inconsistency.-f* It is at any rate clear that 

 belief in another world can exist apart from the practice 

 of cremation, as, for instance, in ancient Egypt, where the 

 idea of burning the dead was horrible.^ The Hurons, too, 

 as we have seen, believed in another world, and tried to 

 account for seeming inconsistences in their beliefs. I have 

 spoken of different treatment of the bodies of those slain 



• EcoU Fraiifaise d'Athcnes, i., 73, and cf. the curious custom of dealing 

 with the OS resectum at Rome, Cic. de Legg. ii., 22, 57. 

 t Gardner, Sculptured Tombs of Hellas, p. 45. 

 i Ildt., iii., 16. 



