What Is Wrong With People? Indonesian Villagers Dig Up Dead Relatives From The Grave To Make Them Up

Toraja in South Sulawesi, Indonesia practices a ritual that makes villagers dig up corpses of loved ones every three years and give them make overs in an event called the ‘Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses’.


Indonesian villagers dig up dead relatives from the grave, makes them up

As part of the ceremony, skeletons of children are exhumed, damaged coffins are fixed or replaced before the mummies are walked around the area by following a path of straight lines during the ritual.

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Herman Tandi, 32 dug up the skeletons of his grand parents Jesaya Tandibua and Yakolina Namanda, brushed their hair and wore them wedding suits.

Many others displayed theirs with their costumes




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