Myth: A person has to take bath after funeral.
Superstitious belief: One can get possessed by any evil spirit if they do not do so.
Actual Reason: The reason behind believing that one should have bath after funeral is just to prevent infections from the dead body as a human body is not safe after death and when we be around the dead body during the funeral, we are prone to get infected by some or the other sort of unsafe conditions due to the dead body. Earlier maybe if a person was mentally ill (may it be due to depression after losing a loved one) the person was considered to be possessed and if the person would even get physically ill the subsequent thought would be that the evil spirit has done it all. According to me there is nothing such as ghosts. And blaming the ghosts as the root cause, is not done. As we all know and the church tells us that once a person is legally buried, with all religious formalities and other such things, they are gone forever (both body and soul) and having this knowledge, still blaming the spirits of those buried in the graveyard does not make sense. The belief could also be to scare people, so that they take it seriously that it is necessary to have bath after a funeral (at least with the fear of not getting possessed) and being safe as mostly people neglect doing things when it comes to health. And find it an 'old school' kind of a thought. But mostly ghost stories scare people which probably makes them have bath after funeral in this case.
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Andrina Fernandes
Superstitious belief: One can get possessed by any evil spirit if they do not do so.
Actual Reason: The reason behind believing that one should have bath after funeral is just to prevent infections from the dead body as a human body is not safe after death and when we be around the dead body during the funeral, we are prone to get infected by some or the other sort of unsafe conditions due to the dead body. Earlier maybe if a person was mentally ill (may it be due to depression after losing a loved one) the person was considered to be possessed and if the person would even get physically ill the subsequent thought would be that the evil spirit has done it all. According to me there is nothing such as ghosts. And blaming the ghosts as the root cause, is not done. As we all know and the church tells us that once a person is legally buried, with all religious formalities and other such things, they are gone forever (both body and soul) and having this knowledge, still blaming the spirits of those buried in the graveyard does not make sense. The belief could also be to scare people, so that they take it seriously that it is necessary to have bath after a funeral (at least with the fear of not getting possessed) and being safe as mostly people neglect doing things when it comes to health. And find it an 'old school' kind of a thought. But mostly ghost stories scare people which probably makes them have bath after funeral in this case.
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Andrina Fernandes
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