Ancient Egyptians and buckets for sick

I was working in a school today, and one of the boys in a class started to cry and was passed a bucket in case he was going to be sick. I naturally assumed that he was not feeling very well and continued on with my lesson.

Only to find out later in the day...

He'd been fine until I'd started talking about the mummification process, specifically the part where a hook was inserted in a dead person's nose to extract the brain. Apparently that had suddenly make him feel rather unwell. Goodness! I didn't realise that my description could have that effect - needless to say I felt rather bad about it afterwards.

Here's hoping that he's now feeling better and that my Ancient Egypt workshops don't have similar effects in the future!