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As they had a violent fear and horror of touching a dead person, since they believed that by touching one they would lose their courage, or as they called it, “become an old woman”, there were amongst them monsters who carried the seriously ill or infirm into the fields, leaving them there, helpless, to die.

• Source: Krauss, Ferdinand. “The Zulu.” Africana notes and news -- Vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 201-220, 1969.
• Culture: Zulu
• Location: Africa