Binding the dead.
http://www.orkneyjar.com/tradition/death/death2.htm
| History Of Funeral Customs |
Good introduction from the Wyoming Funeral Directors Association site.
http://www.wyfda.org/basics_2.html
| Funeral Customs in Yunnan Province, China |
Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/funeral/funeral.html
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
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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