© 07 Colin Melbourne
The BBC news confirms that young women are being bought and sacrificed as ‘ghost brides’ for departed ancestors in China today.
Here Comes The Bride
Offering the dead body of a young woman on a grave in a ‘spirit marriage’ ceremony is not unusual in rural China. They believe the male ancestor who died without marrying, will take the woman as his wife in the spirit world. For this reason, relatives are willing to pay large sums to purchase the corpse of a recently deceased woman. They offer it in a ‘wedding ceremony’ over the grave of the ancestor, as his ‘spirit bride‘.