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Thread #77193   Message #1380685
Posted By: Tannywheeler
17-Jan-05 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Kissing Walking Corpses
Subject: RE: Folklore: Kissing Walking Corpses
I don't remember all the details of Th' Unquiet Grave. Instead of a kiss, I remember the dead lover tells the mourner to get over it, sweetie,and get ON with your life.

Does anyone remember? In the Joanne Woodward movie The Three Faces of Eve -- the event which triggers the split in her character's personality is the traumatic forcing of the child to kiss the dead -- gran'ma? aunt? -- in the coffin.               Tw