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A question about Haiti

by Michael Motley
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Maybe someone knows this. I keep seeing picutres of people tying together the toes of the dead. Anyone know why they are doing this? Is it some kind of burial ritual or something?
  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    Eww... I'm gonna have nightmares today!
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    • Profile picture of the author glchandler
      Found this in a short blurb about Islam/Koran

      Maybe??

      Not only in visiting the graves of the dead, but in the very method of burial Moslems are animists in practice whatever they may be in creed. "It is fear," says Warneck, speaking of the Animists in Malaysia, "that leads them to place food on the dead man's grave; to bring him his tools and coin, that his shadow may use them in the other world and be content. The inhabitants of many islands sacrifice some one, preferably a slave, at the grave in order that they themselves may be spared. The impelling motive is always fear, not grief nor pity. To prevent the soul of the dead from returning to the living, thorns are laid upon the corpse, which is firmly bound, its thumbs and toes tied together, ashes put in its eyes, an egg placed in its armpits, all with the view of making it incapable of movement."
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