11.   Kowtowing, in which the supplicant kneels and bends to touch the forehead to the ground, is done to show respect or apologize.

12.   Soaked in sweat, anguished men and women knelt before his body, running their shaking hands over the casket or lightly touching their foreheads to the wood.

13.   The forehead should be free of hair so as not to interfere when a man prays and touches his forehead to his prayer mat.