Many religious and spiritual traditions have stories about mythical cities, but some of the most fascinating come from what are considered dead religions.
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.
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" .
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" .