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Burial rites of the Abashu, a sub-clan of the Kabras tribe, border on the weird. Respectable old men aged 70 years and above are buried inside their houses at night, moments after 8pm.
The body is not laid to rest inside a coffin; instead, it is wrapped in the fresh skin of a bull clobbered to death at midday.
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