Banyoro and their Culture Part 3

Banyoro Burial Rituals, Bunyoro people customes, Bunyoro and their culture

Banyoro Burial Rituals, Bunyoro people customes, Bunyoro and their culture and all you may need to know about all their traditional customes.

In Bunyoro, burial would take place either in the morning or in the afternoon but not in the middle of the day. It was considered dangerous for the sun to shine directly on the grave.

If the dead body was for a man, the last cloth on the corpse was wrapped around it in front of the house, in the doorway. If it was for a woman, all this would be done inside eth house.

When the body was being taken to the grave, women were required to moderate their weeping. At the grave, there would be no weeping.

A pregnant woman was not supposed to attend the burial in the belief that she would miscarry.

The body of a man was laid on its right side, that of a woman on its left.

These positions were correspondingly considered to be the appropriate ones to adopt when sleeping.

In all cases, the head was placed towards the east and nobody was supposed to leave the graveyard before the burial was completed.

Before the burial took place, the grave was guarded otherwise it might demand another person.

Should a grave be dug prematurely, and the supposedly dying person recovered, a banana plant was cut and buried din the grave

After all the burials, the used to dig the grave and the basket used to carry the soil were left by the grave-side.

People would wash themselves thoroughly and remove all the soil for it was believed that if one walked in a garden with the soil on, all the crops would wither and rot.

After burial, people would cut hair from the back and front of their heads and throw it on the grave.

The grave was marked with stones and iron rods for it was believed that if one built over a grave, all the members of his household might fall sick and die.

If a person died with grudges against anyone, in the family, his mouth and anus would be staffed with clay.

This was meant the ghost from coming out of the corpse to haunt those with whom the dead person had a grudge.

If the dead person was the head of the household, the grave digger would perform another ritual in which he would take a handful of a juicy plant and squeeze it with soot in his hands so that the juice ran down from his hands and elbow.

The children of the dead man were required to drink this juice from the elbow of the grave digger.

On the day of the burial, of the head of a household, a lot of firewood was placed in the middle of the compound.

The children of the dead man would sit around it in turns. The grave digger would then tap each of the children on the side of the head with a large food basket.

A Small amount of hair from the part tapped was cut off and thrown away.

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