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Web Sites
  • 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
     
  • 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 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 & 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
     
  • 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
    Omens of Death
    http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/
     
  • Orkney Islands
    Binding the dead.
    http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.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/
     
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