In old colonial burying-grounds—in Plymouth, Concord, Cambridge, and Rutland, Mass.—the graves are so placed that the headstones face west, that is, the body lies with the feet toward the east.
Perhaps general in New England.
Superstition #1241
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1241.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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