But when tragedy happens to take the life of the youth, Torajans lay the tiny bodies in a tree hollow and cover it with a crude wooden door. If the child dies before teething, the mother wraps the body in cloth and makes another hole in the baby tree to place the dead infant. After “sealing” the tree with wood, nature will take its course, leading to the belief that the departed is now a part of it.
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