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Necrophobia

An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies

Shroud-stealing. If any one, in taking up a dead body, steal the shroud or other apparel, it will be

an offering to the priest, for the burial of a dead body.

Rogus, a funeral pile; a great fire wherein dead bodies were burned; a pile of wood, Claus. 5 Hen. 3

The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave burial interment

The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred or a place

The dissection of dead bodies also excision of necrosed bone

after the death of the father or taken from the dead body of the mother as a posthumous son or daughter

An abnormal attraction to dead bodies

Burning esp the act of burning a dead body cremation