Indonesian village’s bizarre annual ritual of digging up its dead

They say the dead live on in our hearts and minds - but in one Indonesian village, the deceased continue to walk the earth in a rather more literal, zombie-like fashion.

Families in Toraja in South Sulawesi dig up the bodies of their dead relatives before washing, grooming and dressing them in fancy new clothes.

Even dead children are exhumed - two of these photos show the skeleton of a baby wrapped in a print dress with a doll laid next to it.

Damaged coffins are fixed or replaced, and the mummies are then walked around the village by following a path of straight lines.

The ritual is called MaiNene, or The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses, and takes place every August.

Source: Indonesian village Toraja dig up dead relatives and give them new clothes in ritual | Mail Online

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