They were recent human ashes, of that very day.
Well, what was there in human ashes that would still kindle fire at the touch of kindred flesh?
The shed back here is piled, I mean piled, with boxes of what looks like human ashes.
Witnesses later attested that 17 truckloads of human ashes were removed from the burning site, and scattered over the area.
The meeting descends into chaos when the participants argue over what to include and make absurd suggestions, like human ashes and dead cats.
He wondered: Why not add human ashes and make the reef balls into memorials?
Without the window he would have now been a greyish brown lump of human ashes.
But the issue of human ashes fluttering in the local breezes has left many residents unsettled as the police search for answers.
Along with concern for the damage to artworks, some worried about the fate of the vault containing human ashes near the transept.
Some human ashes of the victims of the gas chambers were secretly placed within the sculpture.