Pollute

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[T]o be near a corpse by being present at the burial gives one a mild form of pollution, but to touch it inflicts a stronger form of pollution, which requires more elaborate cleansing rites.

• Source: Ngubane, Harriet. Body and mind in Zulu medicine: an ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice. London ; New York: Academic Press, 1977.
• Culture: Zulu
• Location: Africa