Yeah, that used to be done in Czech rural regions, but > 50 years ago. One distant relative was a beekeeper (indeed a teacher of beekeeping) and when he died a

Yeah, that used to be done in Czech rural regions, but > 50 years ago. One distant relative was a beekeeper (indeed a teacher of beekeeping) and when he died around 1970, his wife (born 1922, my great-aunt) would tell the bees.