Annual Indonesian Ceremony Allows People to Dig up Their Dead to Groom and Wash Them

Every now and then, the corpses are once again exhumed, pampered with haircuts, new clothes and even cigarettes, and reunited with their living relations. The dead are like the living, and are simply treated like ‘sick’ people.

During the festival the bodies are given new clothes, offered cigarettes and sometimes food, and then paraded around the village in order to help bring a bountiful harvest.

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