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Funeral Customs - Death Care, Death, Society 12
End-of-Life - Issues, Society 156
 Aging and Death in FolkloreAging and Death in Folklore
 Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
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Backcountry Death WaysBackcountry 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.
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Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max ButenBali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten
 Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
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The Call of YamaThe Call of Yama
 Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
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Deadly SuperstitionsDeadly Superstitions
 American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
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DearDeath CentralDearDeath Central
 Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
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Death and AfterwardsDeath and Afterwards
 Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
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Death: Burial Customs and BeliefsDeath: Burial Customs and Beliefs
 Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
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Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, ChinaFuneral Customs in Yunnan Province, China
 Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
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Funeral Customs of Caucasian EstoniansFuneral 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.
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Funeral Customs of the Northern KhantsFuneral Customs of the Northern Khants
 Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
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Gravestone Symbolism & IconographyGravestone Symbolism & Iconography
 Ever wonder what the skull and crossbones represents on a gravestone?
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History Of Funeral CustomsHistory Of Funeral Customs
 Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
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Marriage and Funerals in AthensMarriage and Funerals in Athens
 Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
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Orkney IslandsOrkney Islands
 Binding the dead.
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Orkney IslandsOrkney Islands
 Omens of Death
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