Girl's body, 18, 'stolen' from grave in suspected Chinese 'ghost marriage'A teenager's body has been stolen from her grave in China in tomb robbing for a suspected 'ghost marriage'. Known as 'minghun' or 'spirit marriage', Chinese 'ghost marriages' see corpses wed to living people in a ceremony thought to bring peace to the dead in afterlife. It is carried out especially if either the bride or groom had died suddenly before a wedding or a child had died single. SEE ALSO :Kenya to export agricultural products to ChinaIn 2015, a record 14 female corpses were stolen in one village in Shanxi province, according to the BBC. The village family from in North China believe the corpse of their female relative, who died aged 18, has been stolen for one such ceremony.

Source: Standard Digital January 09, 2019 08:48 UTC