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Thread #97635 Message #3068784
Posted By: GUEST,sparkplug62
06-Jan-11 - 05:19 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Origin of 'Going to hell in a handcart'
Subject: RE: Folklore: Origin of 'Going to hell in a handcart'

I heard that it originated in the days of the plagues when people would come around to homes with handcarts and ask for the dead to be brought out and thrown in the handcarts to be taken for cremation (hell).