13 Strange Burial Traditions from Around the World
| April 2, 2018
3. Cannibalism
For centuries, the Fore tribe of New Guinea has practiced mortuary cannibalism, where the remains of deceased family members are ritually consumed. This practice is thought to benefit the living family members – endowing the good qualities of the deceased on those who consume the remains.
This practice was discovered by the wider world when Europeans first made contact with Fore tribespeople in the 1950s, and since then has been in decline due to the discovery of the Kuru disease. Kuru is a very rare neurodegenerative disease that’s transmitted when people consume the flesh of contaminated bodies, and came very close to wiping out the entire Fore population before it was contained in the 1960s.
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