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South African Lady Who Committed Suicide To Be Flogged At Her Lie-in-state
There are various rituals and traditions from all around the globe that others may seem “weird or unusual.”
For example, we reported on the lady whose body was ordered to stand at her own burial, the Namibian community where sex is supplied to visitors, and the widow burning tradition in India, to name a few strange cultural customs from across the globe.
TopNaija then gathered that a South African woman who committed suicide would be floddeg during her funeral.
According to Twitter users, it is a South African practice to avoid such a horrible catastrophe from happening again in a family.
A Twitter user whose cousin committed suicide remarked that her mother would flog her.
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The Luo also called Joluo or Jonagi/Onagi meaning “Ramogi’s heirs”) are an ethnic group in western Kenya, northern Uganda, and in Mara Region in northern Tanzania.
The Luo people are rich in tradition and cultural practises although some of their ways may have an observer raising an eyebrow.
There is a “punishment” for those who commit suicide in Luoland. In certain places in Nyanza, the body of a man that hangs himself on a tree is thoroughly flogged before it is brought down from the noose. The body is also buried outside the homestead in a place referred to as ‘gunda’ — set aside for such and other outcasts.
The act of canning the corpse is to stop the victim’s ghost or evil spirits from roaming back to the home and prompting other people to kill themselves.
Furthermore, a person who commits suicide is buried at night and is not mourned, lest evil spirits haunt the mourners
