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Home / Society / Folklore / Death and Funeral Customs
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- Aging and Death in Folklore - Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
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.
xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/adeath.html
- Deadly Superstitions - American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
home.flash.net/~leimer/super.html
- Death and Afterwards - Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/mds.htm
- Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs - Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
library.advanced.org/16665/burialframe.htm
- Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China - Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
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.
haldjas.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.
folklore.ee/folklore/vol7/khants.htm
- Funerary Symbolism - table of main meanings
www.gnofn.org/~soc/symbol.htm
- Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography - Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.
members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html
- History Of Funeral Customs - Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html
- Japanese Customs - wedding, funeral, celebration, how to take a bath and FAQ. Interesting section on funeral customs.
www.kt.rim.or.jp/~etshioda/customs.html
- Marriage and Funerals in Athens - Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html
- Orkney Islands - Omens of Death
www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death
- Orkney Islands - Binding the dead.
www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm
- What Funeral Customs Say About Americans in the Post-Industrial Era - Essay from The Tombstone Traveller's Guide
www.flash.net/~leimer/cremate5.html
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