Aging and Death in Folklore
Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
www.pitt.edu
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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.
xroads.virginia.edu
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Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten
Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
buten.net
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Deadly Superstitions
American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
members.tripod.com
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Death Central on Monstrous
Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
death.monstrous.com
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Death and Afterwards
Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
folklore.ee
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Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China
Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
www.chinavista.com
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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.
haldjas.folklore.ee
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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.
folklore.ee
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History Of Funeral Customs
Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
www.wyfda.org
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