According to ethnographic data, popular death reporters refers to people who had inside knowledge of "anjinhos", including the grave-digger, gatekeeper, midwife, popular healers etc. all key participants in mortuary rituals.
And now he's disappearing into the dark wings of the stage, taking with him his grave-digger wit and his gnashing bass and the gorgeous, ruinous momentum of his music.
When a death occurred in the community, voorlesers were given full charge of funerary tasks, serving as an undertaker, grave-digger, or sexton, and attending the burial of the dead.