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at the same time lightly striking the
coffin with the green branch, believing that
when the guilty person's name was called
the corpse would give a shake My father's
name was called first followed by quite a
number of others when suddenly on one
name being called the two bearers gave
a lurch forwards and
so the culprit was found - How he
or she would be dealt with I don't know -
The corpse without more adoo was then lowered
into the grave which was filled in and carefully
levelled - The widow then made her camp fire
by the grave side, and every evening as the
sun was sinking she commenced her loud
mournful wailing for the dead - This continued
until the grass began to shoot on the grave.,
then they suddenyl disappeared one night and
we saw nothing of them for several months -
We could never get them to mention the
name of anyone who had died -