Indonesia: In Tana Toraja, Indonesia, the dead are removed from their tombs to replace their clothing each year.
The Toraja people have fascinating rituals surrounding death and the afterlife.
When someone dies, their ritual states that the deceased are to be
buried in the town they were born in (and not necessarily in the town in
which they have died).
Further research into the term “ Rolang” uncovered a Tibetan connection. This one is even more freaky.
In this scenario, a holy man (a “ngagspa”) gets shut up in a dark
room with the newly deceased and lies on top of the corpse, wrapping his
arms around it and placing his mouth over the mouth of said dead person
(EWWW!).
