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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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