My fiance says he’s never heard of this and I can’t tell you I know where it came from but I take my shoes off and carry them or leave them outside the boundary when I know I’m waking over dead people! We’re supposed to respect dead people and you respect people by taking off your shoes when you enter their home! You should take your shoes off when walking where dead people live(are)???
Am I just insane???
So in the case here where I told my fiance to take his shoes off… It’s a whole field. It’s a mass grave. If you intend to cross it in any way you walk over human remains and not ones that were respected in life. It just seemed wrong to put my dirty shoes that had been everywhere on them and I told him to behave similarly and that’s the question. He did it and didn’t hate it or get angry or anything, just told me it was odd and he’d never heard of doing that before, and I can’t even tell you where it came from it just didn’t seem right to put dirty shoes on them.
But it’s not just that though I remember doing it back in art school when we did gravestone rubbings. Doesn’t seem polite to walk your shoes on graves somehow?
I guess it depends on your culture. If my body was in a mass grave I was in the afterlife, people walking on the dirt above my old body with shoes on would not bother me.