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Death and Funeral Customs among the Omahas by Francis La Flesche - by Francis La Flesche - Kindle Edition. http://bit.ly/148L3N
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Death and Funeral Customs among the Omahas by Francis La Flesche - by Francis La Flesche - Kindle Edition. http://bit.ly/148L3N
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Aging and Death in Folklore - Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
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.
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.
Death and Afterwards - Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
Death Central on Monstrous - Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
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Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs - Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
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Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China - Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
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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.
Funeral Customs of the Northern Khants - Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
History Of Funeral Customs - Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
Marriage and Funerals in Athens - Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece.
Orkney Islands - Omens of Death
Meta Description: [ Funerary Customs and the Traditions of Death ]
Orkney Islands - Binding the dead.
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The Call of Yama - Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.
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