William's Order to Neglect the English Dead Was a Bad Choice

Culturally, it probably would have been better if william allowed the soldiers to be buried and they just went around personally shooting on every grave. Depending on how one interprets christianity, william very well may have been interfering with the english soldier's chances of getting into heaven. Given what we can find of folklore during this period, this treatment of the dead could well open the door to unleashing a horde of ghosts and vampires. Do you remember walter mapp's courtly trifles? Some of those ghost stories focused around a failure to provide a proper christian burial. So william's order to neglect the english dead was petty. It was cruel, and it