Corpses exposed in tree

Motif

Corpses exposed in tree.

Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V61.10

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YorubaThe Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa, Chapter 9

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

GreekArgonautica III 205.

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Filed under Various ways of disposing of dead.

Filed beside it

Dead placed on boat Dead burned on pyre. (Cremation.)Coffin buried upright Head buried one place, body another King buried in his war car Christian buried in stone coffin Christian buried in wooden coffin Burial in grave-mound Lion buried in stone cave with gold letters Aversion to burial in "strange city"

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