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A strange phenomena/superstition existed among some Pashtuns that if the corpse of a woman moves/shakes or falls off the bier (a wooden frame on which a corpse is laid) then it meant she lived an innocent life, otherwise, she was a sinner.
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A strange phenomena/superstition existed among some Pashtuns that if the corpse of a woman moves/shakes or falls off the bier (a wooden frame on which a corpse is laid) then it meant she lived an innocent life, otherwise, she was a sinner.
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https://twitter.com/NafeesRehmanDr/status/1316804476737646592
Zaheer-ud-Din Babur wrote about it in his memoirs. He names four places Kunar, Nurgal, Bajaur and Swat in particular where this weird superstition/custom was mentioned to him multiple times and he, finding it quite impossible yet interesting, recorded it in his memoirs.
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He also mentions Hyder Ali Bajauri (a Sultan who governed Bajaur) who subjected his mother to the same weird superstition/test. The Sultan mourned his mother only when she 'passed' the 'test' before going into the grave. He would've burnt her if she had 'failed'.
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I have not heard about it from anyone neither have found any mention of it anywhere. The only source that we is Babur's memoirs.
Have you heard about it? Anyone from Swat, Kunar or Bajaur who can offer some info?
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Have you heard about it? Anyone from Swat, Kunar or Bajaur who can offer some info?
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