Photos show mummified corpses being cleaned in Indonesian ritual, not 'dead people returning to life'

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🇮🇩 A photo has been shared in Indonesian social media posts with the claim it shows people dead for a century who came back to life It in fact shows a local ritual in which preserved corpses are exhumed, cleaned, and even dressed in new clothes

, also called Tana Toraja, is a mountainous region in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi.

One paragraph of the blog post reads:"Ma'nene, as it's called in the Toraja language, is held every August in Pangala, North Toraja, like in the recent two days in August 2014. Ma'nene is a ritual to exhume the corpses from their graves.

 

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