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It is because in Dickensian times they would tie a bandage around the head/mouth of a fresh corpse to keep the mouth shut (stop it coming open) later in history they started stitching the mouth shut after death (the sticking hidden inside mouth and nose).
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In Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Jacob Marley's ghost has a cloth tied around his mouth to symbolize the silence imposed on him as punishment for his past deeds. It also serves to depict his inability to communicate verbally with Ebenezer Scrooge in the afterlife.
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Why does Jacob Marley wear a handkerchief around his head?
I have read 2 seperate theories. 1. States that dentistry around that time period was crude and infection easily set in. The infection would be close to the brain and very capable of causing death. 2. Part of the burial process used during the period to keep the mouth from dropping open during the viewing unexpectedly.
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