Knowledge: death and funeral customs
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- Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol7/khants.htm - Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
- Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography
http://members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html - Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.
- History Of Funeral Customs
http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html - Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
- Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html - Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
- Marriage and Funerals in Athens
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html - Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
- Aging and Death in Folklore
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html - Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
- Backcountry Death Ways
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/adeath.html - Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
- Death and Afterwards
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/mds.htm - Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
- Orkney Islands
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/ - Omens of Death
- Orkney Islands
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm - Binding the dead.
- Deadly Superstitions
http://members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/genietips/tip1.html - American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
- Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs
http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm - Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
- The Call of Yama
http://www.kamat.com/indica/culture/death/ - Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
- Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten
http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html - Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
- Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm - How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.
- DearDeath Central
http://www.deardeath.com/ - Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
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