Years ago, I heard of an African tribe that had a tradition of launching the heads of freshly decapitated bodies into the air. They would bend a sapling over and tie it down with a basket attached at the top. Right after the victim was axed, the head was put in the basket and the vine cut so the head was hurled high into the air. Perhaps a kind of euphoric final journey for the departed.
Makes you go, ‘Hmmmm...’
Just giving the dearly departed a head start on their journey......................