Many religious and spiritual traditions have stories about mythical cities, but some of the most fascinating come from what are considered dead religions.
Melisandre smiled. " Necromancy animates these wights, yet they are still only dead flesh. Steel and fire will serve for them. The ones you call the Others are something more" .
Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; an oven or cooking pot must be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to regard them as unclean.
Usually, it's associated with a holy place, but when we talk about something being in your house, the shrine would usually be something that honors a person, in your house, who has died.
They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead.
The Duchess enquired if the King was dead, and being answered, " No" ; " I have then as yet no other matter, " said she, " and nobody can oblige me to restore what he has trusted in my hands" .