Aging and Death in Folklore
Examples divided by subject.
Examples divided by subject.
Recounts how beliefs about death and dying brought by colonists from the Northern British Borderlands survive in the Chesapeake region and North Carolina.
Description and pictures of Balinese cremation ceremonies.
Very interesting account of a Greek Catholic Baltic Finnic people's beliefs in death, omens of death and the afterlife.
Describes funerary practices in a Chinese village.
How Estonian settlers in Caucasian Abkhazia preserved -- and changed -- their traditional customs and beliefs surrounding death and burial during the 20th century.
Funerary practices of a West Siberian tribe in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Rituals of death and burial.
Website exploring death according to Hindusim. Includes answers to frequently asked questions, and a photographic exhibit.