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1. Aging and Death in Folklore
Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html
2. 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.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/albion/adeat...
3. Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten
Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcrem...
4. Deadly Superstitions
American folk beliefs about death and burial; part of the extensive Tombstone Traveller's Guide to American cemeteries and funeral practices.
http://members.tripod.com/~mccurtain_2/geniet...
5. DearDeath Central
Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
http://www.deardeath.com/
6. Death and Afterwards
Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol8/mds.htm
7. Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs
Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialfra...
8. Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China
Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/...
9. 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.
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm
10. Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants
Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol7/khants.htm
11. Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography
Ever wonder what the skull and crossbones represents on a gravestone?
http://members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html
12. History Of Funeral Customs
Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html
13. Marriage and Funerals in Athens
Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html
14. Orkney Islands
Omens of Death
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/
15. Orkney Islands
Binding the dead.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/deat...
16. The Call of Yama
Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
http://www.kamat.com/indica/culture/death/


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