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...natural that this great and good friend of Britain should have a pucka (proper) Brahmin funeral. But attempts by the British Ambassador, Lord Crewe, to have his corpse burned on a funeral pyre in the open air met with numerous difficulties, and it was ultimately decided to have his remains cremated. His body, dressed in royal robes, wearing the royal jewels, was reduced to cinders in the furnace of a crematorium...
...Ariel put out to sea. A storm was brewing?a few days later Shelley and his friend were found dead on the beach. His corpse was "terrible to look upon for the face and hands and parts of the body had been eaten away by the fish." Upon a pyre, the last remains of Shelley were cremated in the presence of Byron and some friends...
...France fétes the memory of Ste. Jeanne d'Arc, an old woman of Saint Brieuc in Brittany cried : "I want to die like Jeanne d'Arc. France is ruined. I will save her!" She went to the carpenter, begged him to build her a pyre, but he refused. She went home, constructed her a pyre, drenched herself in paraffin, lay down, lit a match, was burned to death...
...tale which is embodied in I Compagnacci ("The Evil Companions") is laid in Florence during the days of Savonarola and around the historical episode in which the reformer monk defied his enemies to trial by fire. He and a rival monk would walk through a blazing pyre, the one who emerged unscathed would be pronounced by Heaven to be right...
BEAUTIES ON STOKES' LOVE PYRE...