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Ethereal Rites and Macabre Traditions
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- 1. Colloquial term for extravagant morbid festivals celebrating the dead
- 2. Fear of being buried alive, shaping some safety-oriented burials
- 3. Japanese ascetic practice of self-mummification by monks
- 5. Reviving bones in a Malagasy ritual also known as turning of the bones
- 6. Underground cemetery complex, often associated with secretive burials
- 12. Sri Lankan custom of elaborate coffin decorations symbolizing journey
- 13. Tibetan celestial burial site for sky burials, where vultures feast
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- 4. Ancient Indian practice of widow immolation on the husband's pyre
- 7. Displaying the deceased publicly, a trait in some historic funeral rites
- 8. Ritual cleaning of corpses' bones in certain tribal customs
- 9. Literary device meaning reminder of death, but here a funeral artifact
- 10. Ancient Sanskrit term denoting a barefoot mourner, emphasizing humility
- 11. Indonesian ritual involving elaborate corpse decoration and procession
- 14. Extinct zebra species once used in South African funeral symbolism
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