How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.Binding the dead.

crossbones shopkorn

Backcountry Death Ways

Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.

afterwards estonians

folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/mds.htm
Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.

iconography funerary

Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China

Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.

History Of Funeral Customs

finnic borderlands

www.orkneyjar.com/tradition /death/death2.htm
Website exploring death according to Hindusim.

balinese burial

Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography

recounts balinese

Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/

cremation monstrous

borderlands burial

Death and Afterwards

members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html
www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html

symbolism crossbones

shopkorn cremation

Aging and Death in Folklore

xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/adeath.html

Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants

Orkney Islands

funerary orkney

iconography cremation

folklore .ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm

Orkney Islands

balinese afterwards

Omens of Death

monstrous yunnan

Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people`s beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral /funeral.html
folklore.ee/folklore/vol7/khants.htm

yama customs

Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina .

Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs

yama estonians

Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
buten .net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html
Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals , science and medicine.
www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html

symbolism khants

Deadly Superstitions

American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller`s Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.

colonists crossbones

members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/genietips/tip1.html
Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here`s an extensive guide.Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.

Marriage and Funerals in Athens

superstitions monstrous

The Call of Yama

shopkorn borderlands

Death Central on Monstrous

crossbones symbolism

www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html
death.monstrous.com/
www.kamat.com/indica/culture/death/
Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.

yama colonists

library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm

omens borderlands

Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians

iconography borderlands

Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten

Jana Shopkorn`s essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.

gravestone balinese

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