We recorded a story from an Irish Traveller which described an updated version of an old tradition among his people
It was common practice when a patriarch of the family died, to burn his home (caravan) and personal possessions, but one old man forbade it happening when he passed on.
Despite this, his somewhat superstitious wife ordered that his old flat-back lorry should be burned.
When the ceremony was performed, the lorry moved off of its own volition and circled the field until it finally came to rest in a corner, away from the rest of the caravans and burned out completely
Jim Caarroll