The lantern of died of Culhat

A lantern of deaths is a built building, of variable form, often slim (like a small slim tower), generally hollow and surmounted of an openwork house (at least three openings), in which in the twilight, one hoisted, often with a system of pulleys, a lit lamp, supposed to be used as guide with the late ones.

Built for the majority around XIIème century, it is thought that these small hollow towers, surmounted of an openwork house and in which one hoisted in the twilight a lit lamp, played the part of a kind of headlight intended to guide the hearts of disappeared towards the eternal rest. More especially as one finds them practically only with the accesses of the cemeteries, although some could disappear with the wire from time. The presence of a lantern, if it were not moved, can then materialize the site of an old place of burial forgotten today.

Survival of a religious rite of Celtic origin, one also thought that the released protective light of these places during the night, could retain death and to prevent it from going rôder to make new victims. This in particular in period of epidemic where the flame of the lampier could be also used to supply on fire the hearths, thus avoiding an useless contact between the villagers which could have been fatal for them.

That of Culhat is a cylindrical lantern of deaths of XIIème century out of arkose, located at the site of the old cemetery. All around it, the grass forms a thicker grass circle. It would seem that one is in the presence of a vortex and of a crossing of telluric networks. Perhaps these lanterns, at the energy level, were used of headlight, shower and elevator to the hearts in departures… (one also finds some on certain churches being next to a cemetery)

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