Show the tower of silence the parsecs will not bum or bury their dead because they consider a dead deul body impure and the they y will not suffer themselves to defile any of the elements they therefore expose their corpses to vultures one sees nothing but the quiet white robed procession white is mourning among the parsees parsecs Par sees foughi following alg the bier to the tower of silence atthe at the entrance they look their last on the dead lead and the corpse bearers a cartoof caste of such carry it within the precincts and lay it down to be finally disposed of by the vultures which crowd the tower meanwhile and for three days after the priests say constant prayers for the departed for his soul la is suppose supposed d not to leave the world till the fourth day after death on the fourth day there is the urbanna ceremony when large sums of money aro are given away in demor memory v of the departed the liturgy in use ia is a series of funeral sermons by of superstitions the parsees have had more than they retain connected with burial ia is the popular conception as to the ef efficacy fleacy ot of a dog dogs a gaze after death dogs are sacred and find supposed to guide the souls of the dead deai to heaven and to ward off evil spirits hence it is 13 custom ary to lead a dog into tho the chamber of death that he lie may look at the corpse before it is carried to the tower nineteenth century |