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Aging and Death in Folklore
Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
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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 Details

Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten
Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
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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.
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Death Central on Monstrous
Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
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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.
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Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China
Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
www.chinavista.com Details

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.
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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.
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History Of Funeral Customs
Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
www.wyfda.org Details

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