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Mirrors
One of the folk-belief reasons given for covering mirrors with crepe during the days of home funerals was that if a coffin got reflected in a mirror it would get "stuck" there and remain there always and you could never ever get it removed ("And they even tried Bon Ami!"), outing itself again at the darndest times. Thus on some dark and stormy night a century and more afterwards, as the lightning flashes, the unlucky onlooker will see the coffin once again relected in the mirror.
Question: since home funerals are becoming comparatively common again, are the mirrors again covered or not?
One of the folk-belief reasons given for covering mirrors with crepe during the days of home funerals was that if a coffin got reflected in a mirror it would get "stuck" there and remain there always and you could never ever get it removed ("And they even tried Bon Ami!"), outing itself again at the darndest times. Thus on some dark and stormy night a century and more afterwards, as the lightning flashes, the unlucky onlooker will see the coffin once again relected in the mirror.
Question: since home funerals are becoming comparatively common again, are the mirrors again covered or not?