There was a time when children were born-dead "came back to life", showing unmistakable signs and prodigies. Superstition? Heresy? Hallucinations? The miraculous phenomenon had a Christian name, répit, (repeat) but had its roots in the most remote and distant past.
Never Never Live Dead is the outcome of the exciting human and historical investigation undertaken by the authors, in order to reconstruct the distant origins and implications social, cultural and personal form of this ritual, among the most popular and enduring of Christianity, which has run out only in the nineteenth century.
"... Life is the true miracle, immense and fleeting, short for that."