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Death and Funeral Customs:

Aging and Death in Folklore

Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html

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.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/adeath.html

Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten

Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.

http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html

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The Call of Yama

Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.

http://www.kamat.com/indica/culture/death/

Deadly Superstitions

American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.

http://members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/genietips/tip1.html

DearDeath Central

Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.

http://www.deardeath.com/

Death and Afterwards

Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.

http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/mds.htm

Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs

Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.

http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm

Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China

Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.

http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html

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.

http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm

Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants

Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.

http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol7/khants.htm

Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography

Ever wonder what the skull and crossbones represents on a gravestone?

http://members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html

History Of Funeral Customs

Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.

http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html

Marriage and Funerals in Athens

Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html

Orkney Islands

Binding the dead.

http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm

Orkney Islands

Omens of Death

http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/

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