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Death unclear 116 p 31 tmong the Creeks?, when a person dies all in the hour are supposed to be unclean. The corpse is buried in the ground, directly under where the bed stood on which the person was expired?: and when one dies from home, the corpse is taken home, & buried under where the deceased used to sleep. But when a priest or ]]unclear]] dies the corpse is buried unclear der his seat in the church house. After burial, all unclear go to a stream and bathe as among the Cherokees, then drink and scrub themselves with the juice, or tea of the small willow roots, and after unclear certain time are unclear. tmong the Creeks? when a husband dies, the widow must remain single four months. During this time, she neither combs her hair, nor anoints it. She neither washes her face nor her apparel. At the end of four months, her unclear husband's brother, or if he has no brother, his nighest kinsman, may marry her, but no other. This is done in the following manner. The brother, or nearest kinsman of the deceased, notifies his mother or sister, or nighest female relative of his intention to take his brother's widow. His mother, or sister, as the case may be, takes a new suit of clothes, goes to the widow, combs her hair, changes her dress, and take her to this unclear house, and delivers her to the man who is to be her husband. This is followed by a public dance to confirm the union. Nearly the same rules are to be observed by the man when his wife dies. He mourns four months, without dressing his hair, marking or painting his face, or changing his clothes. At the end of four months, he may marry his deceased wife's sister, or nearest relative in case she has no sister, and the marriage is affected as before, only the woman who is to be his wife, sends her brother unclear to comb his hair wash, dress, & present him to her at the unclear house. But in case a man has two wives, and one dies, the surviving wife unites with him in mourning for the deceased, and both continue in the state two months. During this time they observe all the rules of mourning and have no intercourse with each other, as husband and wife. Should a widow or widower violate any of the rules of mourning, the women in the town are authorized, i.e. are supposed to have the right of punishing the culprit with slapping and wipping?. So also, if a man, having one wife, takes another to the injury of the first, i.e. was to unclear any unclear of his first wife: or if a man have his wife unclear