Death and Funeral Customs Folklore Society
Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
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Death and Funeral Customs
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- Aging and Death in Folklore - Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than folklore region.
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- History Of Funeral Customs - Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association death and funeral folklore customs site.
- DearDeath Central - Explores the faces of death across art, societies folklore and rituals, folklore science and medicine.
- Death and Afterwards - Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic folklore Finnic people\\'s society beliefs in death, omens of death folklore and the afterlife.
- Funeral Customs of Caucasian Estonians - How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- death and funeral society customs and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs death and society funeral customs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.
- Orkney Islands - Binding the dead.
- Marriage and Funerals in Athens - Jana Shopkorn\'s essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
- The Call of Yama - Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently society asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
- Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants - Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last society quarter of the 20th century.
- Backcountry Death Ways - Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought folklore by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive folklore in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
- Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs - Death customs and beliefs in various regions and death and funeral folklore customs countries of the world.
- Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten - Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
- Deadly Superstitions - American folk beliefs about death and burial; part society of the extensive Tombstone Traveller\'s Guide to American society cemeteries and funeral practices.
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