Death and Funeral Customs
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15 Sites in Death and Funeral Customs
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Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
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Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
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Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
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American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
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Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
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Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
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Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
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Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
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How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.
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Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Ever wonder what the skull and crossbones represents on a gravestone?
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Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
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Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece. Includes links to numerous vase images.
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Binding the dead.
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Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
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