Further Readings: The Life Cycle

  • Ballard, Linda M., Forgetting Frolic: Marriage Traditions in Ireland, London, 1998
     
  • Bennett, G., Alas, poor ghost! Traditions of belief in story and discourse, Utah, 1999
     
  • Goldstein, D., Grider, S., & Banks Thomas, J., Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore, Logan, 2007
     
  • Lysaght, P., The Banshee: The Irish Supernatural Death Messenger, Dublin, 1986
     
  • O Súilleabháin, Seán, Irish Folk Custom and Belief, Cork, 1977
     
  • O Súilleabháin, Seán, Irish Wake Amusements, Cork, 1976
     
  • Ridge, A., Death Customs in Rural Ireland: Traditional Funerary Rites in the Irish Midlands, Dublin, 2009
     
  • Tarlow, S., Ritual, Belief, and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland, New York, 2011
     
  • Urlin, E.L., A Short History of Marriage: Marriage Rites, Customs, and Folklore in Many Countries and All Ages, Detroit, 1969
     
  • Van Gennep, A., The Rites of Passage, Chicago, 1970


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