Mummies dug up for a change of wardrobe

29.08.2012 [11:49]
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Baku, August 29 (AZERTAC). If these mummies weren`t already dead, they`d be dressed to kill.

That`s because they`ve been dug up as part of a bizarre local ritual in a village in Indonesia that involves giving decomposed corpses a new look.

Family members of the deceased exhuming their ancestors` bodies and change their clothes as a way of remembering them. They then walk the dead around the village, almost like zombies.

The ritual, called Ma`nene, happens every three years to honour the villagers` love for the deceased. It is carried out in the Toraja district of Indonesia`s South Sulawesi Province.

Locals believe dead family members are still with them, even if they died hundreds of years ago, a family spokesman said.

Mummies dug up for a change of wardrobe

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