<Ul> <Li> Some Russians and Serbs believe that ghosts of the dead linger at the site of their death for forty days . After the forty days, additional prayers are performed at the grave (parastos (парастос) or panihida (панихида)), to escort the soul on its way to God's court . </Li> <Li> Many Christian Filipinos mark the end of the initial mourning period on the fortieth day after death, and have a Mass said . They believe that the soul remains on the earthly plane for forty days before entering the afterlife, recalling how Christ ascended to heaven forty days after his Resurrection . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Some Russians and Serbs believe that ghosts of the dead linger at the site of their death for forty days . After the forty days, additional prayers are performed at the grave (parastos (парастос) or panihida (панихида)), to escort the soul on its way to God's court . </Li> <Li> Many Christian Filipinos mark the end of the initial mourning period on the fortieth day after death, and have a Mass said . They believe that the soul remains on the earthly plane for forty days before entering the afterlife, recalling how Christ ascended to heaven forty days after his Resurrection . </Li> <Ul> <Li> In Hinduism, some popular religious prayers consist of forty shlokas or dohas (couplets, stanzas). The most common being the Hanuman Chalisa (chaalis is the Hindi term for 40). </Li> </Ul>

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