Posted on 10/31/2017 8:42:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
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DANCING WITH DEATH Plague is spreading because relatives are digging up their Black Death dead and DANCING with the corpses as part of ancient Madagascan ritual called Famadihana
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Madagascans have been told to stop the traditional practice of Famadihana - which sees locals dig up deceased relatives and dance with them before they are re-buried. It is feared the ceremony has helped spread an outbreak of pneumonic plague that has left more than 120 dead on the African island
It is feared the ceremony has helped spread an outbreak of pneumonic plague that has left more than 120 dead on the African island.
The country's health chief Willy Randriamarotia said: "If a person dies of pneumonic plague and is then interred in a tomb that is subsequently opened for a Famadihana, the bacteria can still be transmitted and contaminate whoever handles the body."
The tradition has been banned since the outbreak began, but it is feared ceremonies have taken place regardless.
Some locals are openly dismissing the advice.
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Hmmmmm? I just remembered something. Before the “Final Solution” France was asked to allow the Jews of Germany to settle in Madagascar and they refused. How different Madagascar could have become. Then again, who would have been running it? Himmler? Heidrich? Eichmann? I would like to envision a New Israel, but it may have been another hell.
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My son’s high school teaches that all cultures should be equally celebrated. I can see that. Dancing with corpses is right up there with Handel’s Messiah at Christmas.
I remember seeing a TV show about this back in the 1950s. It was either Lowell Thomas’ show or John Gunther’s HIGH ROAD. It also showed the dried up bodies being “fed” with milk from a bottle.
I am just gonna say it...any culture/people who are that backward and ignorant in 2017 deserve to die. Isolate them . No aid no sympathy.
On Madagascar, you can be the afterlife of the party!
Blacks say unless there is a black on a team then the best ideas have not been heard. I kid you not.
Well, that explains water polo and Olympic diving..............
Damn, I thought my Halloween parties were creepy and over-the-top. You start digging up your relatives for dance parties, and that’s a whole nother level.
Shake dem bones...!!
What could go wrong?
I mean before the head, arms and legs fall off.
The scary thing is half of the retarded eligible voters of America voted the Kenyan into office twice who brought third world garbage to America.
Primitivism
Even primitives aren’t that stupid...................
Charles Darwin please pick up the white courtesy phone...
That dance will spread to the middle east.
It’s got a good beat.......................
:^D
Yes. haha
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