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Death and Funeral Customs (from Folklore)
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Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs
Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
Aging and Death in Folklore
Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten
Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
Orkney Islands
Omens of Death
Death Central on Monstrous
Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China
Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
Death and Afterwards
Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
Backcountry Death Ways
Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians
How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.
Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography
Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.
History Of Funeral Customs
Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
Marriage and Funerals in Athens
Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
The Call of Yama
Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
Deadly Superstitions
American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants
Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
Omens of Death
Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.
Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.
Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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