This is the scariest and truly creepy ethnic group on earth. The Mursi tribe lives in southwest Ethiopia. People of the tribe worship the Demon of Death and recognize only him. According to the members of the tribe, a particle of evil is enclosed in each of them, so in their cruelty and aggressiveness they simply have no equal on the African continent.
Mursi tribe - 7, 000 African demons
The average number of the Mursi tribe is 7 thousand people. However, one can only guess how these people are still alive, because the whole life of this tribe is aimed at destroying their own body.
According to their religious teachings, the human body is a fetter in which the souls of the Demons of Death languish.
Mursi men and women of short stature. They have a wide bone, short crooked legs and flattened noses. They have flabby bodies and short necks. In general, their appearance is painful and repulsive.
Mursi tribe members decorate their bodies with tattoos, however, they do it in a very barbaric way. They make incisions on the body and place insect larvae there, then wait until the insect dies, after which a scar forms at the site of the incision.
The entire Mursi tribe exudes a specific "flavor." They rub their body with a special compound that can repel insects.
Mursi women
There is practically no hair on their heads. Women of the tribe decorate their hairstyles with tree branches, marsh mollusks and dead insects. In general, the smell of such an intricate headgear is felt from afar.
At a young age, the girls of the tribe are cut their lower lip, and then they begin to insert round small pieces of wood into the hole, increasing their diameter every year. Over the years, the hole in the lip becomes simply huge, and on the wedding day they insert a clay plate called “Debi” into it.
The girls of the tribe still have a choice whether to cut their lips or not, but they will give a very small ransom for the bride without a “deby”.
It is believed that this custom appeared at a time when Ethiopians were massively taken into slavery, so some people on the African continent often deliberately mutilated themselves. However, members of the tribe repeatedly rejected this version.
Mursi women have unusual ornaments hanging around their necks. They are made from the bones of the phalanges of human fingers. Every day, ladies rub their jewelry with warm human fat so that they shine and delight the eye.
Mursi Men
Men of the tribe are often intoxicated. The tribe has a lot of firearms. Kalashnikovs delivered to the tribe from Somalia.
Those men who did not manage to get an assault rifle carry battle clubs with which they are very professional in handling. Often men of the tribe engage in battles among themselves. They fight for leadership. Sometimes such fights can end in the death of one of the tribesmen. In this case, the winner must give his wife to the family of the defeated opponent in compensation.
Mursi men adorn themselves with fang earrings, as well as special scars that are applied to the body on the occasion of the murder of one of the enemies. If a man was killed, then on the right hand they cut out a special symbol in the form of a horseshoe, if a woman - on the left. Sometimes there is simply no place left in the hands, then the resourceful Mursi move to other parts of the body.
Men of the tribe do not wear clothes. Their bodies are completely covered with a white pattern, which symbolizes the shackles of flesh that imprisoned the Demons of Death.
Priestesses of death
Then comes the "dream of death." A woman throws hallucinogenic grass into the hearth, and the man sits on special mezzanines located under the ceiling of the hut. The stupefying smoke envelops the native, and he plunges into the realm of bizarre dreams.
The next stage is the "bite of death." A woman rises to her husband and blows in his mouth a special powder made from a mixture of ten poisonous herbs.
Now comes the final part of the rite of death. The High Priestess goes around all the huts and carries the antidotes, however, she does not save everyone, someone from Mursi will surely die that night. The High Priestess draws a special symbol - a white cross - on the widow's daughter. The widow enjoys special respect in the tribe, it turns out that she completely fulfilled her duty. She is buried with special honors: the body is placed in the stump of a trunk and hung on a tree.
If an ordinary representative dies in the Mursi tribe, then his meat is boiled and eaten, and the bones are laid out in his settlement.
