Frickin Zombies, man.
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Only in Indonesia (especially Toraja), a corpse is usually being carried up to the grave, but in Toraja, the corpse is woken up letting it tol walk to its grave (is rarely performed anymore)
The corpse is woken up using black magic. This is done because in Toraja the graves/cemetries is placed above limestones mountains.
The corpse walks by itself, and its guided by an expert in black magic behind it. But there is one prohibition, the corpse shouldn’t be appointed, once pointed, the corpse falls down and isn’t able to walk again.
Someone else added this:
So according to my research, this is a Mamasa ethnic group ritual (The Mamasa, or the Toraja Mamasa as they are called, live West of the Tana Toraja. Their practices are similar to the Tana Toraja, but there are slight differences in their culture), and is rarely done anymore. And the corpse is not made to walk to go to the grave - it is made to walk to go back home to the village where it came from, so that the relatives can guide the deceased’s soul into the afterlife.
There are two restrictions: First, the animated corpse must not be touched (that is why the man is touching the corpse on the arm with the sleeve on); and second, the corpse must not be directly addressed in conversation. If either of the two are done, the corpse will not be able to move again, not even with the help of black magic, and will not be able to complete its journey back home.
As you can see, there is a hand with a cellphone taking a photo of the walking corpse. This is because during their entire funeral festivities (it is a happy celebration and not a time of mourning for them), people are encouraged to take photos with and of the deceased to show that the deceased is still part of their community.
This is probably the most unusual and the coolest funeral ritual I’ve heard so far, in a scary way.
Original tumblr it was posted on
Only in Indonesia (especially Toraja), a corpse is usually being carried up to the grave, but in Toraja, the corpse is woken up letting it tol walk to its grave (is rarely performed anymore)
The corpse is woken up using black magic. This is done because in Toraja the graves/cemetries is placed above limestones mountains.
The corpse walks by itself, and its guided by an expert in black magic behind it. But there is one prohibition, the corpse shouldn’t be appointed, once pointed, the corpse falls down and isn’t able to walk again.
Someone else added this:
So according to my research, this is a Mamasa ethnic group ritual (The Mamasa, or the Toraja Mamasa as they are called, live West of the Tana Toraja. Their practices are similar to the Tana Toraja, but there are slight differences in their culture), and is rarely done anymore. And the corpse is not made to walk to go to the grave - it is made to walk to go back home to the village where it came from, so that the relatives can guide the deceased’s soul into the afterlife.
There are two restrictions: First, the animated corpse must not be touched (that is why the man is touching the corpse on the arm with the sleeve on); and second, the corpse must not be directly addressed in conversation. If either of the two are done, the corpse will not be able to move again, not even with the help of black magic, and will not be able to complete its journey back home.
As you can see, there is a hand with a cellphone taking a photo of the walking corpse. This is because during their entire funeral festivities (it is a happy celebration and not a time of mourning for them), people are encouraged to take photos with and of the deceased to show that the deceased is still part of their community.
This is probably the most unusual and the coolest funeral ritual I’ve heard so far, in a scary way.
Original tumblr it was posted on