J. W. Halton

“ One man however told me that if one touched a dead body, the idea of it did not haunt one, and also that if the body was cold there was no danger, but if moist and clammy to the touch someone in the room would die within the year. I have only come across this custom once.
Another custom, almost universal amongst the poorer classes in the country, is the placing of a saucer of salt on a dead man’s breast. I have never noticed it on a woman’s. ”