[MR] Quick Lime (Lye)

[Phillip Jones]

Fascinating. Truly the most informative thread I've seen in some time.

Now then, is the glass method documentable to period? I mean, I'd hate for
some body to get all bent out of shape because my disposal methods were OOP.
The ghost of any such laurel would haunt me with moans of "out of period",
"not doc u MENT a ble" {shiver}. Would oyster shells work well, I mean if we
wanted to keep an Atlantian theme?

Seems to me that another fine method would be pigs. I hear they eat pretty
much everything, but am concerned how they would handle the thick skulls of
certain um objects....


Phillip Jones
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Subject: RE: [MR] Quick Lime (Lye)



>I'm less interested in soapmaking than in hiding the
>corpses. Is ashe lye suitable for this?
>Phillip Jones

Errr, well, it will work. The most popular (commonly used through history)
method is to pile a number of bodies into an open pit then coat them in lye.
Sun and rain doing their natural things will erode a body in a about a week,
less if there is a lot of lye and rain.

The most effective and easily disguisable way of doing it is burying the
body with layers of lye and broken glass in this order (from the bottom to
top): dirt, glass, lye, body, lye, glass, lye, dirt, glass, dirt to surface.
The glass immediately above and below the body servers to grind the body and
help the lye do it's job. The glass just below the surface is to discourage
animals from digging up the evide...bod...object buried. Doesn't work as
fast as the open pit method, but in about 3 weeks, there isn't much left but
broken glass under about 3 feet of dirt.

Just pay attention to make sure that the water table is low, and ground
drinking water isn't too near (particularly yours).


Vels
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