Roast Chicken and Gold Coins Buried With Corpse An account of a strange gipsy funeral near Bergamo is reported ly the correspondent of the "Corriere della Sera" in that town, says "a Rome correspondent. The funeral in question was a woman chief of a Norwegian gipsy tribe encamped outside Bergamo. The old woman had reached the age 82. The procession was preceded by 23 musicians playing dance music. The coffin was followed by priests, and there were in the rear of the procession a number of carnages on which the curious or sympathizing public could take seats if they wished to accompany the hearse as far as the cemetery. These strangers were offered 30 lire each by the relations of the deceased at the cemetery, The son of the dead woman directed the procession, ordering a halt now and again so that the musicians could play some music. At the cemetery the body, which lay in a coffin lined with white silk and with necklaces around the throat, was deposited in a columbarium, In the tomb were placed three bottles of champagne. a roast chicken, and several gold pieces. After the funeral a
landlord of a local inn, and any-of money was given to the body who wished to drink to the memory of the deceased could do so. The gypsies then threw hand-tuis of earth at each other.
After this, a banquet was prepared, and a bottle of beer was placed before each of the guests. No one, however. touched any of the food—although they had not eaten for 24 hours—until—the wrother of the deceased arrived and Jit. some ceremonial) candles and burnt some incense. After this the mourners ate heartily, exeepb the n of the old gipsy chief. who alternately danced and wept.
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