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| | Aging and Death in Folklore     |
| | Examples from folklore divided by subject rather than region.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/aging.html |
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| | 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 |
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| | Bali Royal Cremation - photos by Max Buten |
| | Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
http://buten.net/max/Bali/index_baliroyalcremation.html |
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| | 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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| | 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 |
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| | DearDeath Central |
| | Explores the faces of death across art, societies and rituals, science and medicine.
http://www.deardeath.com/ |
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| | 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 |
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| | Death: Burial Customs and Beliefs |
| | Death customs and beliefs in various regions and countries of the world.
http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/burialframe.htm |
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| | Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China |
| | Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html |
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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.
http://folklore.ee/folklore/vol5/mikko.htm |
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