So on a final note
When you get into your research in a more in-depth way, well you may want to know the reasons of why, not just that plain fact of this or that, why, well you will just have to try, the old Gipsies it is said came from far away, in these far away lands it is said they had customs that may be of a religious type or cultural way of going on, the Humans as of me and you developed our inner being, they say this is the soul, we then often asked ourself questions like who are we, who made us, this as been going on a long time, try to reseach the history of mankind, it's a good read, well there are these inner-soul customs that we have learned and taken on, they have become a part of every culture in the whorled, all having all kinds of difference's but still descending back to the time we started to use our brain, they say we are still only using a minute part of it to, that's true, then you have the things that are not customs or suspicions, you have inner things that everyone had from the long times of evolution, natural protection ways, things that you are born with, you get that sense sometimes things are not quite right, you can almost smell it, I was reading about the things below to help me understand the truth of the records i find and story's i was told, did you know it is wrote that it may take the dead sometimes three days maybe to omit the death smell, maybe this is why in some cultures they lay the body in state for a few days, you have to maybe wait for the right moment to release the spirit, there are many such death rituals in cultures, I think the answer does not belong to just one answer, the answer is not right just saying this is what the old time people did for supperstions and rituals, then the answer is not just science teaching saying we are hot wired from birth to follow the flight or fight scenario, I think the answer is all of it, to emit one is to putrefy the truth, if it's the truth you seek you must first seek it, try and research these things below to help you understand more.
Research from the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, published in the journal Evolutionary Biology.
Evolutionary biologist David Rollo of Canada found in his research
that he thought for over 400 million years nearly all animals or insects emit the same stench when they die, to recognise and avoid the dead could reduce the chances of catching a diseases, or be eaten by other things that were higher up the food chain, oleic or linoleic acids are released through death, wild animals would also smell death so this is why people would be buried or burnt, or possessions burned.
One of the most bizare facts i have been learning is the oleic acids that insects and animals release at death which inturn triggers a responce in the things alive, well the acids are found in soap to, do you see the contradiction, but is it a contradiction, you have to think about that one, in nature and science all the answers are there, for every action there is a reaction, and did you know the old time fishermen from over the sea would tow a dead shark behind thier boat to stop sharks attacking their nets full of court fish, to the sharks the stench of a dead shark spelled danger so off they would go, if you do real research as in more in-depth than this you will correct my writings and find more truths.
Read also about the research of sociologist and ecologist E. O. Wilson, there is some great reading.
If you go on the internet just type in about all the buring customs of the lands of India, then Romania and those Country's will show many of their customs along the roads that the Gipsies travelled, that evan I have talk about over these few posts, I think lots of things were picked up and Incorporated by the Gipsies on the long road to you, people have wrote of whitcraft, vampires, the devil himself, all of these things, the truth is Gipsies are just Gipsies, when you know you will know, but how will you know when you don't first know, and if you don't first know how will you ever learn to know.
I may not write again on this research if no one answers me, I have tried my best for the Herons, tried my best for all there relations, I have many many records of your family through the generations, but I think this is a good place for you to start your research, go to the Newspaper Archive web site I have often wrote about it, log on and join up, I have left out many clues in the extracts I have wrote, you may find untold story's of your people, the Newspaper Archive web site is not expensive join up and learn yourself of the Romany Gipsy Family, The Herons.