Note 169 — APPENDIX. (continued 4)

In the regulations which were made for the Prussian converts, the popes particularly condemned the funeral customs of these people. “The neophytes,” say these regulations, “promise not to burn their dead, and not to bury with them men, or horses, arms, clothes, or valuable things. They will no longer have those impostors called ligastons, who resemble pagan priests, and who, at funerals, praise the dead for robberies, impieties, and other sins,” &c. These regulations enable us to become acquainted with many of the ancient customs of the Prussians.