The Shrouded Mirror - a photo on Flickriver

            In the Victorian era, family members would hold funerals in there homes, and it was tradition for all the mirrors to be covered with a black shroud or veil. This would insure the dead would not get trapped inside the mirrors.
   

Taken on: January 1, 2021

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