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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Most Bizarre Patriarchal Ritual Ever: Ghost Brides

January 30, 2007

Three Chinese men are in custody today for the murders of two women whose corpses they sold as ‘ghost brides‘. This tradition, called “minghun”, is more or less the post-death selling and buying of female corpses for the purpose of providing a wife for a deceased male relative who died single.
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