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Role of animals in conceptions of death and the afterlife in Croatian ethnographic data

This article deals with beliefs about animals in ethnographic data from Croatia. More specifically, it explores the role of animals in traditional conceptions of death and the afterlife. Animals and conceptions of animals played an important part in all segments of the life of “the folk”. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the connection between humans and animals was not only a part of everyday life, but also extended into the afterlife.

animalistic beliefs, ethnographic data, death and the afterlife

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