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Maybe waiting for the body to be put into the tower, bade (or wadah), or resting between village and graveyard. There is a magic formula which can make the chariot extremely heavy, or if the person was not well liked in the community the bearers may take their time in conveying his remains to the graveyard. Appears in Hitchcock and Norris as Fig 109.
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