The most haunting culture...That people want to do. Outsiders want to run away.

The most haunting culture...That people want to do. Outsiders want to run away.

This time we turn on the warp to see "haunting cultures and traditions" from all over the world. It is a culture that outsiders like us can't sleep. But for them, it is a sacred ritual that continues with love and belief.

1.Manene tradition (Ma'nene) - Indonesia: extravaganza exhumed the body, dressed for a walk

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the Torajan people have a culture of love for the creepy deceased. Every three years, they perform a ceremony of "digging the bodies of mummified relatives out of coffins," cleaning them, dusting them, brushing their hair, and changing their clothes. Then they take the bodies of their ancestors around the village like they are alive to celebrate and express their gratitude.

Keywords: Ma'nene tradition Toraja mummies

2.Famadihana (Famadihana) - Madagascar: Dance Party with the Dead

The Merina in Madagascar believe that the soul of the deceased will not go anywhere until the body is decomposed, so every five to seven years they will hold a great party by "digging up the bones of their ancestors and wrapping a new silk," and then the offspring will carry the body or carry the skeleton on their shoulders and play a loud dance of fun around Feng Sui before putting the body back to the same burial.

Keywords: Famadihana turning of the bones Madagascar

3. Eating the same bone ash (Yanomami Endocannibalism) - Amazon forest:

The Yanomami were an ancient tribe in the Amazon rainforest. They believed that "death is not natural," but the curse of other shamans. And letting the body rot naturally is terrible. So when people die, they burn the body to the bones, then they grind the bones and ashes to powder it, and then "mix it in boiled banana soup to eat the whole tribe," because they believe that this is the only way to keep the souls of their loved ones in the bodies of their offspring forever.

Keywords: Yanomami endocannibalism ash soup

4.Sokushinbutsu (Sokushinbutsu) - Japan: Culture Mummification Yourself While Living

In the past, in the 11th-19th centuries, some Shingon monks in Japan practiced extreme rituals to achieve the ultimate justice by "torturing their bodies into mummies from death." The monk had to limit his food, eat only nuts and wood roots to iron out his fat, drink tea made of poisonous wood to vomit and prevent insects from eating corpses after death, and then meditate in a narrow catacomb with a single snorkel, and rattle a bell every day so that the people above knew that they were not dead. When the bell was silent, the cemetery would be closed forever.

Keywords: Sokushinbutsu self mummified monks Japan

5.Ikipalin (Ikipalin) Tradition of the Danis-Papua Guinea Tribe: Cutting Finger Jensen Sadness

For the Dani Tribe, the psychological pain of losing a lover is not enough. They also have to express themselves physically, especially for women in the tribe. If a close relative or husband dies, they have to go to the ceremony of "cutting off one of their fingers" for one dead body, using a rope to numb the pain before using a stone axe to chop it down as a way of mourning and believing that the blood shed will drive out bad spirits from haunting the house (the government has now banned this rule, but we can still see old women in the tribe whose fingers are almost out of hand).

Keywords: Dani tribe finger amputation ritual

"The norms of the word" horror "of each society are never equal...Because in some cultures, the scarier thing than death is being forgotten. "

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