Various ways of disposing of dead.
Religion. · Religious services. · Funeral rites. · view the constellation · filed as V61
Motif
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Filed under Funeral rites.
11 finer motifs beneath it
Dead placed on boatDead burned on pyre. (Cremation.)Coffin buried uprightHead buried one place, body anotherKing buried in his war carChristian buried in stone coffinChristian buried in wooden coffinBurial in grave-moundLion buried in stone cave with gold lettersCorpses exposed in treeAversion to burial in "strange city"
Filed beside it
Stones sold at funeral wakesFuneral rites by druidsRestrictions on burialBones of dismembered person assembled and buried. (Cf. E30.)Money tied on corpse thrown overboard from ship in order to secure burialCommemoration of deathFuneral sermonAccompaniments of burial. (Cf. V61.3.0.1.)Preparations for burialFuneral rites – miscellaneous