Bear skull rite

After the bear is brought down its skull eventually needs to be placed to hand in a big lone pine-tree. That completes the hunting and burial ceremony and assures proper circulation of the bear spirit.

Bear skull rite is a spell or ritual learned by all characters during character creation. After a bear is brought down, its skull must be hanged on a lone, mature pine tree by dropping the skull on ground and then pushing it up the tree. Failing to complete this most crucial of rituals is a certain way to anger the bear spirit and invite ill luck.

In another spell, carrying bear teeth to find hares and birds requires gathering bear's teeth from the skull before leaving it in the tree.

In the Real World, this was done as part of larger funeral ceremony rites called peijaiset.