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and the Early Mediaeval period in the West, the host was sometimes placed in the mouth of a person already dead. Some claim that this could relate to a traditional practice which scholars have compared to the pre-Christian custom of Charon's obol, a small coin placed in the mouth of the dead for passage to the afterlife and sometimes also called a viaticum in Latin literary sources.

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