He rent his clothes and put sackcloth around his waist mourning for days. He attended Canterbury in sackcloth and ashes as an act of public penance. It was erroneously credited as a bandoneon (a closely related instrument) on "Sackcloth 'n' Ashes". He attempted to live modestly, wearing homemade sackcloth clothes. Anat too wears sackcloth when she finds the fake dead body. Throughout the Old Testament, persons fast and wear sackcloth to appease God. In the rear were the females of the deceased's family clad in sackcloth. On two occasions he went out in public wearing sackcloth as a sign of protest. There he removed his New Year's fine clothing and weapons and dressed in sackcloth. In a few places the subject was expected to wear sackcloth. Sackcloth bags are not completely necessary but generally preferred.