Society, Folklore, Death and Funeral Customs

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- Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
- Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide.
- Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
- Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
- Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
- Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
- How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.
- Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
- Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
- Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
- Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
- Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
- Binding the dead.
- American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
- Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.

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