Notes & Queries Archive
QUERY1850

Burning the Dead

By T.

Can any of your readers, who may have attended particularly to the funeral customs of different peoples, inform me whether the practice of burning the dead has ever been in vogue amongst any people excepting inhabitants of Europe and Asia? I incline to the opinion that this practice has been limited to people of Indo-Germanic or Japetic race, and I shall be obliged by any references in favour of or opposed to this view.

Topics: Funeral Customs, Burning the Dead, Indo-Germanic Race, Japetic Race

Locations: Europe, Asia