More on Australia.

Ok, So I just found out that I read a whole 30 pages that I didn't have to read. oops. It was a really interesting chapter, however; something worth sharing.

This chapter was about the Piacular rites of Australian religious cults. These rituals are mainly used when one of the members of the cult passes on. When someone is said to be dying in a cult, the men and women start wailing and cutting themselves. The father of the deceased slices huge gashes into his thighs that prohibit him from standing or walking. The mother heats a stick in a fire and burns marks into all of her appendages while crying out in horror. Other members hit themselves in the head with machetes and cut their arms and legs, afterward burning their cuts with sticks to aggravate the wounds. The whole cult wails and cries and holds each other.

They believe that if you don't act in such a manner after the death of a cult member, their soul will come back and kill you. They are such actors.