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About the Custom of Repeated (Double) Burial

Double burial is one of syntagm which is used in ethnological standard and scientific literature to denote and include a custom of digging up posthumous remains after a definite time (after 40 days or after 10 or more years)and burying them again which is followed by different rituals. The notes from the literature used in this paper were a line of direction for the elaboration of the matirial from the ethnological Questionaire, which was gathered for the ethnological Atlas of Yuigoslavia in the sixties and seventies of this century.

Custom; Rituals; Funerals; Double (repeted) burial; Questionnaries

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