2007-07-20 01:43:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The bible proves that occasionaly dead people will crawl out of their graves and walk around. Today we nail the coffins shut to prevent that from happening.
2007-07-20 01:47:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many reasons. If they are transporting the coffin and it tips over, it would be quite awkward to get a shovel and scoop the body remnants back into the coffin... To name one of them.
2007-07-20 08:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure it goes back to early times. Maybe so if there was a flood, the body stayed in the coffin. I don't really know.
2007-07-20 08:48:20 · answer #3 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably to prevent grave robbing. Many grave robbers would open the coffin and steal any jewelry or anything worth anything.
2007-07-20 08:49:41 · answer #4 · answered by hossteacher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1- so it doesn't open. with modern caskets they are sealed (don't know how, but its not nails)
2- superstision- vampires. I read a nice book about the studies of vampires and how priests nailed the coffins and if they weren't nailed and a vampire arose the priest would kill it.
very interesting and weird.
2007-07-20 09:10:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In case one of the drunken pallbearers drop the casket and the lid falls off, allowing the zombie contained therein to escape.
2007-07-20 08:46:37 · answer #6 · answered by Satan's Own™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They really aren't nailed anymore, but they are secured so that shifts in the ground don't expose the corpse... flooding, earthquakes and other natural occurences can cause some problems...
2007-07-20 08:49:41 · answer #7 · answered by Ũniνέгsäl Рдnтsthέisт™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably to deter grave robbers. It used to be a pretty lucrative business, from what I understand.
2007-07-20 08:58:26 · answer #8 · answered by Avie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep the zombies from rising.
2007-07-20 09:32:35 · answer #9 · answered by smt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To stop grave robbers?
2007-07-20 08:46:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋