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The special rite for the burial of children up to 7 years of age (the so-called „Infant Funeral“) is part of a complex system of worldviews, liturgical traditions, and folklore practices. These are all bound in one ritual complex whose aim is to „normalize“ the event by embedding it in the context of Orthodox Christian understandings of death, redemption, and retribution in the afterlife. The proposed...