A teenager’s corpse has been snatched from her grave in China for a disturbingly shaded reason.
The Mirror reports that the authorities suspect her body was dug up to be used in a “ghost marriage” also know as “minghun” or “spirit marriage.”There’s bizarre,there’s deranged, theres frothing at the mouth, and bug-eyed lunacy,and then there’s the practice of digging up corpses and marrying them, also know as ghost marriages — something which is apparently on the rise in China. Grabbing a trusty pick and shovel and setting out to dig up your decaying bride to be from the cold unyielding earth is not something even the master of the macabre, and Edgar Allen Poe,would absorb considered to be the done thing.
Yet in medieval China it was all the rage to marry a woman who was cold, rigid, or riddled with worms,and softly decaying.Click here to continue and read more...
Source: inquisitr.com