Note 656 — Chapter VI · THE ORIENTATION OF GRAVES
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O. Manning and W. Bray, Hist. and Antiquities of Surrey, 1809, II. p. 146. This example is valuable as illustrating the growth of myth. A legend of the district, dating perhaps nearly as far back as the time of Manning and Bray, states that Mr Hull was “buried on horseback, upside down,” because he believed that, at the last day, the world would be “turned topsy-turvy.” (See Murray, Handbook for Surrey, 5th edition, 1898, p. 114; Black, Guide to Surrey, 5th edition, 1898, p. 126.)