Also, is there a custom that in cemeteries, people are buried with their heads to the east? This is a bit of folklore that my father passed on to me. Supposedly he knew of some dead person whose relatives dug him up and turned him around when they realized he had been buried the wrong way. The point of the story was that HE thought it was silly to go to that trouble, but he believed there were other people who thought that orientation was important.

I've visited cemeteries many times, but I'm afraid I never paid attention to the way the graves were oriented.