Professional mourners were widely used in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East, and the practice held strong in many countries through the Middle Ages and, in some countries, even into the present day. Many saw professional mourners as a crucial part of the ceremony of loss. Like hired event planners, mourners applied their expertise to a practice that might otherwise fall into chaos. Of course, the bereaved were capable of grieving by themselves, but the professional mourner helped them to marshal and coordinate their expressions of grief. Among Spanish Jews in the 14th century, the hired mourner made her position as coordinator of grief more than metaphorical, by accompanying her wailing with a rhythm-setting tambourine.

BOCÍ, bocesc, vb. IV. Intranz. şi refl. A plânge tare (cu vaiete şi strigăte). ♦ Tranz. A recita bocete la înmormântarea cuiva. – Din boace (înv. şi reg. „voce” < lat
http://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=bocit

ritualul bocitului consta in recitarea de bocete nu in racnete de durere

Alte referinte:
Bocitul "profesionist"

Ce înseamnă, însă, această tradiţie şi cum ar fi ea de explicat? "Sunt sate unde e o ruşine pentru familie ca mortul să nu fie bocit, ritualul fiind o îndatorire faţă de cel ce a plecat dintre vii şi care trebuie orientat pe calea cea bună prin versurile funebre. De aceea, dacă cei rămaşi în urma defunctului nu au voce frumoasă sau nu ştiu boci, aceştia roagă o bocitoare <<profesionistă>> să ajute familia, preluând în numele lor această îndatorire sătească", afirmă profesorul Ioan Cuceu, de la Arhiva de Folclor a Academiei Române.
http://old.clujeanul.ro/general/afisare_articol.php?id_obiec...


http://www.click.ro/Special/bocitoare-de-meserie


Bocetul consta ( depinde de regiune) intr-un cantec de jale sau o descriere mai mult sau mai putin versificata a calitatilor definctului (ei)

http://sacred-texts.com/etc/fcod/fcod07.htm
Wailer

Women are more given to the display of emotional grief than is common amongst men, and they have for this reason been much in demand as "wailers"; in this capacity their professional shrieks have echoed down the ages. A generation ago they were frequently to be heard on the Continent, in Wales and Ireland. They too had followed the Greek and Roman to his tomb, ****crying and beating their breasts (for suitable remuneration)****, lest the attitude of studied self -repression, considered a correct deportment for mourners of rank, might be misinterpreted by the dead, who were believed to be ever ready to avenge the slightest sign of indifference on the part of those they left behind them


Wailers par sa fie o subclasa de "bocitoare" insarcinate numai cu "jeluire" mortului nu si cu "laudatul" dar diferenta cred ca e minima si e posibil ca amandoua notiunile sa se confunde