Viral News / Here people dance with the dead body, such is the tradition before burial

We have often seen people dancing on happy occasions. Be it a birthday party or a wedding, whenever a happy occasion comes, we love to dance, but have you ever heard that people dance with the dead body after someone's death. Absolutely strange isn't it, but it is absolutely 100% true. There is such a tradition, where if someone dies, the family members dance along with his funeral procession and reach the cemetery.

People dance with the dead body at the funeral

According to the news published in CNN Travel, people of the Malagasy tribe in Madagascar dance with the dead body during the funeral. Not only this, when the funeral procession takes place, locals and family members dance with the dead body and reach the cemetery, which is as part of the Famadihana custom. In this sacred ritual, many dead family members are also taken out from the ancestral graves.

Live Music Around the Tomb

Under the Famadihana custom, after bringing the dead bodies from their burial place, re-draping them in new clothes and dancing around the tomb to live music. After every seven years this tradition is followed again, but in some years this tradition has declined. Spends a lot of money on the occasion of the mausoleum and the celebration as it is finally considered a big day after the funeral.