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
