Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability...

List of Illustrations Introduction: In Search of Unusual in Early Modern and Modern Burial Traditions Titta Kallio-Seppä, Sanna Lipkin, Annemari Tranberg, Tiina Väre, and Ulla Moilanen Memorials, Graveyards, Epidemics: Inequality, Disease and Sudden Death Chapter 1. Forgotten and Remembered: Unusual Memorial Practices at Buffalo’s old Cemeteries Sanna Lipkin Chapter 2. Reactions to Tragedy: Familial and Community Memorials to Sudden Occupational Deaths in Britain and Ireland Harold Mytum Chapter 3. Memory of Epidemic Diseases in Finland: Old Disease Cemeteries and Modern Urban Planning Titta Kallio-Seppä and Tiina Väre Chapter 4. Freethinkers’ Cemeteries and Local Secular Burial Culture in Finland Ilona Pajari Peculiar Burial Places Chapter 5. Death during retreat – the burials of Carolean soldiers in Jämtland and Trøndelag (Sweden and Norway) Kristina Jonsson Chapter 6. Taken to the Island. Temporary Burials in Early and Late Modern Periods in Finnish Periphery Tiina Väre and Juha Ruohonen Memories and Folklore of Unusual Death Chapter 7. “On the Apparitions of Drowned Men”: Folklore and the Memory of Unnatural Death at Haffjarðarey, Western Iceland Sarah Hoffman Chapter 8. The Death is Living with Us – Witchcraft at the East Coast of Bothnian Bay during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Annemari Tranberg Unusual Cause of Death Chapter 9. The cause of Death – Arsenic or Mercury? Investigation of Human Remains from Entombments in the Moscow Kremlin (Sixteenth – Early Seventeenth Century)   T. D. Panova, A. Yu. Dmitriev, S. B. Borzakov and C. Hramco Chapter 10. Sawed Skulls - Archaeological Evidence of Medico-legal Autopsies in Finland Ulla Moilanen, Anne-Mari Liira, Heli Lehto, Kati Salo, Maija Helamaa, and Kari Uotila Afterword Milton Núñez Index

“The book contains much fascinating and important information and will no doubt inspire further study. As it stands, it is one to recommend to all those interested in the histories of the forgotten.” • Church Moments “This book full of case studies provides a small but important glimpse into how death, burial and memory are handled in the European north.” • Thomas Hönigmann, Forensic Archaeology Working Group, Vienna