slop bin for the soul

“[...] skulls were taken to the local river and washed during times of drought in the belief that this would appease the dead, who would help to restore normal weather patterns. Such popular devotions continued through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and even well into the twentieth. In Palermo, Sicily, for example, a large group of adherents developed around an ossuary pit containing the skulls of beheaded criminals. According to a popular legend, a traveler who was a devotee was set upon by bandits; he called upon the beheaded souls for help, and skeletons armed with bones rose from the pit and drove off his assailants. As at Ghedi, the Church authorities, alarmed by the group’s devotions and perplexed by its outlandish claims, closed off the ossuary and removed the skulls from view, but its adherents were undeterred. Through the first half of the twentieth century, people would come in and whisper to the bones through the floor, and then press an ear to the ground hoping to hear a response.”

Why do you think there’s so few ghosts around? Why are most ghosts people who died violently? You gotta crack the bones to let the soul out. Most souls are trapped alone in the dark and silent ground (or teaching hospitals) for hundreds or thousands of years until the bones eventually start to break. People who are cremated get their whole soul released and it can reincarnate. But if someone dies violently then maybe only a couple of their bones are cracked and a little scrap of the soul escapes but it’s incomplete and confused. Can’t figure out how to leave, gets obsessed with its own circumstances, repeats actions, CANNOT be reasoned with. PROOF that the soul is in the marrow.

#i want to study you to figure out how you can type coherently while plastered