The Hopping Dead: the Corpse Walkers of China (Article)

After reading this interesting posting by Hilary about 'carting corpses'
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/frie...corpses-anyway

I did a bit googling and stumbled upon this article The Hopping Dead: the Corpse Walkers of China a really eerie tale about a very morbid chinese cult :eek:

Corpse walkers were people whose job was to literally walk dead bodies home. While it is hard to find official records of “professional corpse walkers”, this business has been a part of Chinese culture for hundreds of years. As recently as the mid 20th century, there were reports of corpse walkers in China.
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Corpse walkers worked in pairs. One was the leader, the “walker”, one had the corpse hoisted upon his back, he was the “carrier”. The carrier’s job was also to masquerade as the corpse. Since the corpses were very heavy, and the walkers often had to travel for months at a time, the pair would regularly trade off who had to carry the corpse. The weight of a corpse on the corpse carrier also accounted for what appeared to be the corpse’s stiff gate....

http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/h...-walkers-china