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
Gravestone Symbolism & Iconography Ever wonder what the skull & crossbones represents on a gravestone? Here's an extensive guide. http://members.aol.com/TombView/symbol.html
History Of Funeral Customs Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site. http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html
Marriage and Funerals in Athens Jana Shopkorn's essay on ritual and ceremony in Ancient Greece. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JSp.html
Aging and Death in Folklore Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html
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/adeath.html
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
Orkney Islands Omens of Death http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/
Orkney Islands Binding the dead. http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm
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/genietips/tip1.html
Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world. http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm
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/
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
DearDeath Central Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine. http://www.deardeath.com/
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