Corpses sold for Chinese ‘weddings of the dead’
Posted on May 27, 2007 in the Real Weddings category
Chinese police have arrested a corpse trader who killed six women so he could sell their bodies for superstitious “weddings of the dead”. The Xinhua news agency said the man - only identified by the surname Song - was part of a network supplying “ghost brides” to families seeking afterlife spouses for their dead sons.
Arranged marriages for the dead are an ancient tradition in parts of China. Although the custom declined after the communists took power in 1949, it is said to have made a comeback in rural areas.
Starting last year, he allegedly lured four women with learning difficulties to remote areas on his bicycle, then strangled them. He allegedly found the two other victims by recruiting them as housekeepers. “Killing people and selling their bodies was easier than stealing bodies from graves,” he was quoted as saying. Each corpse earned him £200 to £265 and his motive? to make enough money to build up a dog-breeding business.
Arranged marriages for the deceased are particularly common around the festival for the dead in early April, in some cases, the dead men have living wives, but their parents want them to have company in the afterlife.
Source - http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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thats quite gross hunny.