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To: Red Badger

Unfortunately, that doesn’t fully qualify as a “Joke”, because there are some cultures who really will do what you just described if no one gets in their way.

In Indonesia: Every 5 to 7 years, the Malagasy families open their ancestral tombs. They remove the bones, rewrap them in fresh silk cloth, and dance with them to live music. The practice is calledFamadihana, or ‘the turning of the bones’.
And it’s a festival of love,, reunion and respect.


8 posted on 06/19/2026 7:19:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

That’s a really interesting anecdote. I never heard of it.

Should be a James Wan film (the Conjuring, the Nun, Saw, Lights Out...). He’s from Malaysia, not Indonesia but that doesn’t matter.


10 posted on 06/19/2026 7:26:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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