Graves of infants and children belong to a specific category of medieval and modern-age burial culture. The relationships between survivors and deceased children have been complex throughout the Christian period presenting, ...

The article deals with the constitutive components of the phenomenon known as “fear of the deceased” in traditional folk rituals at the time of the decease and burial, and with endeavours to prevent the returns of unreconciled ...

The study introduces an effort to achieve salvation for criminals who were sentenced to death during the Baroque period. It is based on a probe into the instructions for the treatment of people sentenced to death written ...

The paper deals with the handling of corpses of executed people which were sometimes left at the execution site until the body was decomposed (gallows), but sometimes were buried in a special way. Research on gallows near ...

The study first briefly outlines European and indigenous historiographic productions examining the relationship between dreams and death. It also focuses on a semiotic definition of the space of sleep and dream on the basis ...

The paper deals with the issue of burial of revenants, which in current ideas merges more with the listing of various antivampire rituals. At the heart of the debate is the grave of an alleged werewolf in the area of Livonia ...