The Mystery Of The Corpse Opening The Coffin Lid

The Mystery Of The Corpse Opening The Coffin Lid To Find Its Way Home In Indonesia

The image of corpses suddenly getting up and walking normally on the street to find their home can make many people shiver in fear. However, for the Toraja people in Indonesia, this is a very normal thing from time immemorial.

Zombies find their own way home?

From time immemorial, the Toraja are an indigenous ethnic group living in the high mountains of southern Sulawesi Province, Indonesia (“Toraja” means people of the highlands). Many years ago, when the land where the Toraja people lived was isolated and seemingly isolated from the outside world, rumors of magical magic, making corpses walk normally were spread by many people around the world. known world.

According to the oldest people in the tribe, making zombies walk dates back to ancient times. At that time, a civil war broke out between the Tana Toraja people in the West and the Tana Toraja people in the East.

The Tana Toraja people of the West suffered a catastrophic defeat and were largely annihilated. Meanwhile, the Tana Toraja people in the East suffered fewer deaths and most of the warriors managed to bring the bodies of the departed back to the village for burial.

On the contrary, because it is not possible to bring the bodies of the ill-fated back to the village, the Tana Toraja people of the West have devised a special way to bury the dead. They then used a mystical method to make the corpses walk and find their way back to their village. Since then, the Tana Toraja people have kept this “magic” and until now, sorcerers only perform at the request of the family of the deceased.

The Indonesian ritual of seeing ghosts find their way home.

According to the beliefs of the Toraja tribe, those who have died who are buried far or near must return to the village where they were born to meet their loved ones. This is a mandatory rule for the dead, because the living will guide the dead into a new life in the afterlife.

It may sound strange and absurd, but for the Toraja people, they will feel more secure when their deceased loved ones are meticulously instructed in the “skills” that exist before they are actually laid to rest in the golden spring. Previously, the way home for zombies was very long, many people were afraid that the zombies would “die” again on the way back.

Therefore, they often hire a sorcerer to go behind to help the zombies get home safely. After being “blessed”, the corpse can walk normally without any trouble. The zombies moved stiffly, looking like robots, and their faces were expressionless. The special thing is that if someone talks to the zombie on the way back, that zombie will fall down and can’t get up to continue the journey.

Therefore, the danger that stalks the zombies is to meet people who are still alive and get them to talk to them during their journey back home. To limit the risk, sorcerers often find deserted streets, almost no passersby, so that the corpses can walk freely without being disturbed.

Although scientists have known about this practice of the Toraja people for a long time, they have not been able to explain “How can the Toraja witch make the zombies walk and find their way home?”. The most reasonable provisional answer is that sorcerers used a powder to bring the dead back to life in an unconscious state and for a certain time.

Model of a walking corpse.

Accordingly, this powder is said to be extremely toxic to living people, because it is extracted from animals such as puffer fish, scorpions, poisonous spiders… These substances are also believed to exist in the skin and internal organs. organs of newts, toads, salamanders, blue-ringed octopuses… But for the dead, it is a miracle drug that helps to revive death. When the sorcerers blew powder on the corpse, it stimulated the dead nervous system to work again like an oiled machine.

Usually this drug will bring the zombies back to life for about 3 days, enough time to find their way home. If they want the zombies to live longer, the witches must mix the potion with a different ratio and dosage. However, many people are still not satisfied with the above answer and think that making the zombies walk is just an evil magic trick of the witches.

Nowadays, the Tana Toraji also rarely see such scenes. The main reason is still money. Fewer people know about this magic, and few families can afford the exorbitant cost of the sorcerer. The secret of the zombies finding their way home is probably only known to the Toraja witches, only they can have the most definitive answer.

Ancient magic from time immemorial

The strange thing is that these walking corpses are quite intact and do not smell bad. Since 1905, scientists have also found intact, non-decomposing human remains in this land. Scientists have studied and suddenly realized, these human corpses were not marinated with any chemicals, different from the known method of mummification of the ancient Egyptians.

According to locals, the unique Toraja burial method and special soil conditions may be one of the important reasons why walking zombies are unique to the region. Mamasa, Indonesia.

When a villager dies, their body is wrapped in clothes before being placed in a coffin. The men would then carry the coffin to the tribal burial ground. The special thing is that the Toraja cemetery is unlike any other in the world. Those are steep limestone cliffs, hundreds of coffins lying on those cliffs. Here, people chisel into squares deep inside the rock, long and wide enough to fit a coffin.

Seen from afar, the tombs located in the heart of the mountain look like pigeon nests or like the windows of a high-rise building. Only strong men can do this strenuous burial. Initially, they used bamboo ladders to climb the tomb chambers on the cliff and then it took 4 to 5 people to transport the deceased’s body up the vertical cliff like the wall before placing the dead person in. final resting place.

As for the fact that the smell of corpses did not exist, it was because these corpses did not decompose but dried up, looking like a mummy. Many corpses come out of coffins after many years still with eyelashes, eyebrows, hair and faces barely deformed or changed much compared to when they were first buried.

According to the people here, the fact that the corpses have such good “quality” may be because in the limestone in this area there is a substance that helps preserve human corpses. In addition, the fact that the bodies are buried deep in the cliffs to avoid the effects of weather or digging by animals may also be a reason for the bodies to be kept intact.

In addition, before being buried on the cliff, the corpse was mummified by some strange leaves picked in the forest. These leaves have the effect of preserving corpses for many years, keeping the body from rotting or disintegrating because a corpse will not be able to walk normally if the bones are broken one at a time.

How true this unbelievable truth is, perhaps only the Tana Toraja witches have the best answer. Whether using magic or not, this is still a precious spiritual ritual, which should be preserved and protected by the Tana Toraja community and the Indonesian Government.

Source: https://kenhthoisu.net/corpses-open-coffins-to-find-their-way-home