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Most Judeo-Christian graves face east and west, so that the sun rises at the feet and sets behind the head. If you find a grave that is turned perpindicular (north and south), then you have found someone who died in extreme disfavor with the church.
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I was taught that they laid the ones who died in disfavor with the feet pointed west, and head to the east so that when the sun rose on the day of judgement they would not see and rise with it (I.E. stuck in the ground because they missed it).