Her comely form was wrapped in a simple hooded gown of deep turquoise which fell in gentle gathers to the floor.

Somewhat apart from the other effigies crouched a middle-aged woman in a hooded gown striped vertically in yellow, orange and black; her fingernails gleamed as if gilded.

After a short delay, the spirit returns, his dragon's scales exchanged for a friar's sedate hooded gown.

The first procession takes place at 3:30 AM on Holy (Maundy) Thursday and involves hundreds of participants dressed in hooded white gowns.

Hundreds of participants, dressed this time in hooded black gowns, march down Corso Italia and then wind through the smaller lanes of Sorrento.

They were clothed in hooded black gowns and they came in pairs.

This unusual family - Mom wears a funereal veil, Dad is monklike in a hooded gown - is dysfunctional at best.

She possesses both eyes and is dressed in a long, black hooded gown.

Each one wore a hooded, foot-length gown of chocolate-brown material, cinched around the waist by a braided white rope.

A girl in a hooded gown said, "No data, sir."