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There are records of similar practices (binding toes or piercing the soles of the feet to stop the dead from escaping) in Scandinavia, so it may have been somet
by pherq 9y ago
There are records of similar practices (binding toes or piercing the soles of the feet to stop the dead from escaping) in Scandinavia, so it may have been something that came over with the Norse influence in Scotland.
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr#Means_of_prevention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr#Means_of_prevention
- jnbiche 9y ago>so it may have been something that came over with the Norse influence in Scotland. Not only via Scotland. Vikings regularly raided and colonized Ireland directly, too.
- pherq 9y agoI know -- I just apparently parsed Gaelic as Scottish and forgot that the spelling is same for Irish Gaelic...