One of the most rigidly
observed and demanded customs between Australian aborigines is never say the
name of a dead person, be a men or a women; naming aloud that he has finished
of living it would be a brutal violation of their most sacred prejudices and
they carefully abstain doing so
.
The main reason of this
abstention seems to be the fear of conjure up the spirit, although the natural
aversion to rekindle the last pain also influences.
They rarely speak about
the dead aborigines and when they do never say their names, they refer to them
in a low voice as “the lost” or “the poor friend who is not”. Between of the
tribes of Central Australia nobody can say the name of the dead person during
mourning and only when is absolutely necessary to do its whispers for fear to
alter and disturb the spirit that is prowling in ghostly form.
What do you think about that? Would you do it?
I can't find the part I wanna show you when say about the dead aborigines.
By: Carla Nicole Hidalgo
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