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often to be seen, their “headstone” a simple wooden
cross. The majority of the natives are nominally Christians,
and pagan burials without crosses are now forbidden.
Besides, there is the belief spreading among the “Christian”
natives, that the Resurrection Angel will not recognise their
graves if he does not see the cross over them. But even
these “Christian” burial-places show signs of heathenism
in the children’s toys, the skulls of the reindeer, the sleighs
which were used in transporting the dead to their last
resting-place, and other belongings of the deceased with
which the graves are decked.

tungus grave on the tundra.

In spite of the official prohibition of pagan burials, pagan
graves both old and new, as well as the graves of the
Shamans, are still to be found in secluded places in the

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