Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Customs - "ghost" brides
Every culture has unique customs.
This one is surely barbaric...
This one is surely barbaric...
From Bejing, Jane Macartney reports for the U.K. Times Online:
"'I did it for the money; it was a quick buck,' Yang said, according to the paper. 'If I hadn't slipped up early, I planned to do a few more.'
The women were victims of an old belief, still alive in the yellow-earth highlands of western China, that young men who die unmarried should go to their graves accompanied by deceased women who will be their wives in the afterlife. Often these women die natural deaths."
