The day is stark and stiff as a linen shroud.

The show was stolen, however, by a team of acrobats wrapped in linen shrouds.

The jerk of her hand under the linen shroud.

The Entombment shows Christ's body, wrapped in a white linen shroud and still wearing a crown of thorns, as it is lowered into a deep stone tomb.

He wears informal attire - in fact, a linen shroud - and he looks for all the world like a disheveled peasant.

And a corpse, wrapped in a linen shroud.

The body is clothed in a white linen shroud and not street clothes.

Other portraits were painted on wooden coffin lids, linen shrouds and plaster heads.

When the corpse arrived at Grinton churchyard it was buried without a coffin in a linen shroud.

At this stage, the spells were typically inscribed on linen shrouds wrapped around the dead, though occasionally they are found written on coffins or on papyrus.