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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 & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.
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
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://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm
Marriage and Funerals in Athens
Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html
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
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
Orkney Islands
Omens of Death
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/
Orkney Islands
Binding the dead.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm
The Tombstone Traveller's Guide
Site exploring American cemeteries and funeral practices. Includes features on etiquette, historic graveyards, essays and musings, and funeral facts, as well as information about funerary customs in culture, photographs, and memorials.
http://www.tombstonetravel.com/
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
Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs
Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm
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/
Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten
Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html
Death Central on Monstrous
Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
http://death.monstrous.com/
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