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MAN PARADED PUBLICLY FOR KILLING SACRED PYTHON IN ANAMBRA. (VIDEO/PHOTO).



 MAN PARADED PUBLICLY FOR KILLING SACRED PYTHON


A native of Anambra State was paraded through his local community for allegedly killing a sacred python. 


The python represented an "ancestral father" and killing it is regarded as patricide in several Igbo and Delta communities in Nigeria. 


It is a taboo to trap or harm a python, and where one is found dead in the wild, great lamentation is raised for it and it is buried with cultural ceremonies that befit a man. 


In the case of the Anambra man, the dead python was wrapped around his neck and he was made to roam the community in a show of shame.

Watch video below. 


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