MS. GRAVEYARD DIRT

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May 31st, 2011 VI, by Ms. Graveyard Dirt

When the weather becomes more favorable I perform the majority of my funerary rites outdoors (naked, usually - I’d rather wash blood off my body than out of my clothes), which is especially useful when you’re bringing home multiple animals and can’t use the garage as a giant refrigerator due to rising temperatures. (<- Winter in Scotland is a scavengers dream. But the second summer rolls around? You got to either work with your roadkill animals super quick, or cleverly hide them in the fridge until you’re ready to start and finish the process in one go).

We make offerings to visiting wildlife on a daily basis - now two times a day since fledglings have left their nest and are being taught foraging skills by their parents - and on this occasion I used breakfast cereal to create edible veve-like patterns around the bodies of the dead to feed both the crows and the wildlife that the food would inevitably attract.

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