Feast of the Dead Lore Books

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About food and death.

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Feast of the Dead

Though it may seem otherwise at times, our Lord is equally gracious to all men, and exalts none above another. The rich men of Kuttenberg were convinced of this truth when, in the second year of the reign of King Charles, they held sinful feasts in the town hall until God himself stopped them.

At that time a plague was raging in the city and in the surrounding area, which was mowing people down by the hundreds. But the rich, convinced that their earthly power would protect them from the punishment of God, made nothing of the disease, and spent their days and nights in drinking, during which they overfed, fornicated, and committed other sins in abundance. But the fact that they did not care about the death of everyone around them did not mean that death did not care about them.

No wonder, therefore, that at one of those unclean feasts a deadly contagion broke out, which would surely have swept the whole city, had not the zealous guards, who locked the drunken lords and ladies in the feast hall, protected the others. And in vain did the rich beat at the door, and begged for mercy with entreaties and threats. It took three weeks for the Lord to put an end to their suffering.

Their bodies, together with all the costly clothing and valuables they had brought to the feast, were taken to the cemetery in Sedletz. They were buried there in the northernmost corner in a mass grave. The place is still marked by a stone circle and a large cross with a wreath of flowers.