A look at the research being carried out by Dr Stuart Dunn at Kings College London. This includes his work on rediscovering Corpse Paths in Great Britain.
4. Corpse-paths
Now it is the time of night
When the graves all open wide
Every one lets for its sprite
In the church-way paths to glide
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 2, Sc. 3
6. Wm. Self. Weeks. "Public Right of Way Believed
to Be Created by the Passage of a
Corpse." Folklore (1928): 393-398.
Corpse-paths
7. “Some of our mountain hamlets are far
from the parish church, which has
given rise to the “corpse road,” which
goes straight a lance to the village
centre … But the official who dared to
meddle with the corpse road, even
though it might not be sued once in
twenty years, was in for dire trouble”.
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