Ever heard of a strange and shocking culture in your life? The world has a population of 7.4 billion who live in a different corner and follow
their own culture and traditions. Every culture has something fascinating about it and some weird facts as well. As we all follow our own
culture and traditions, it feels exciting to know about other cultures.
But sometimes, many cultures follow bizarre customs and rituals that send chills down our spine. These rituals are so creepy that they can
give nightmares to anyone. Here we bring you a very bizarre and hell frightening ritual that will make you happy about your own rituals.
We have talked about thousand of weird customs till now, some were related to marriages, some were related to wedding nights; some
were related to childbirth, while some were related to deaths.
And if we talk about death rituals, there are many which can bring the sh*t out of you and can give you many sleepless nights.
Most common death rituals are cremating the dead body or burying them. But have you ever heard about burying a person alive? I am
sure you must have not.
But people of Santiago de las Vegas in Cuba have been following this inhuman tradition where they bury people alive in graves. This
tradition involves great celebration and people celebrate it with great enthusiasm.
This tradition id followed as a festival every year in Cuba which is known as ‘Alcohol Festival’. People living here have been following this
festival for a very long time and it has become a legacy that is must to be followed.
People gather in huge numbers and organize a rally where they carry people in coffins and take them to graveyards for burying them.
After reaching the graveyard, they put the coffin in the grave and mourn the death of that person. The mourning is then followed by a
widow who mourns the death of that person by taking his name very loudly.
Other people shed tears on the death of that person while others drink alcohol and celebrate death. They play musical instruments and
dance on the streets.
Everyone who gather for this festival, party at the time of the funeral. They drink alcohol, dance and eat many dishes. According to the
people of Cuba, this festival is celebrated for the belief that ‘being reborn is the most beautiful thing there is in life’.
This festival allows them to celebrate the new birth of a person who has been placed in the grave and treated like a dead person.
The celebration in Santiago de las Vegas, about 12 miles south of the Cuban capital, has been held each February 5 for the last 30 years and is known as the Burial of Pachencho. But the atmosphere is more street-party than funereal.
The tradition was born on February 5, 1984, when villagers got the idea of putting on a mock burial to mark the end of local carnival
season. It took its name from the title of a play that had been shown in what was then the town theatre. Pachencho is not representative of
any real person, living or dead.
The people of Santiago de las Vegas feel that ‘mourning a live dead man is not disrespectful to the dead it’s a homage to the challenge of
life.’
That is denying someone the right to life…..we are tired of these cultural practices that do not add to people’s lives.