Nineteenth Century Mourning Ritual: “Telling the Bees” | JSTOR Daily – shared via Pippa Blackburn, PhD | Loss, Grief, Bereavement and Life Transitions Resource Library

In nineteenth-century New England, it was held to be essential to whisper to beehives of a loved one’s death.

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Nineteenth Century Mourning Ritual: “Telling the Bees” | JSTOR Daily – shared via Pippa Blackburn, PhD