What customs are often practiced when a Nigerian dies?
Sacrifices, food, and cloth are often given in behalf of the spirit of a dead man. People may fear the spirit and offer it gifts for many days. After three days it is a custom to wake the spirit into heaven. An operation is sometimes performed to cut out the portion which caused disease so that the re-incarnated body will be well. Second-burial celebrations are common traditions. Mourning ceremonies and practices claim to appease the spirit of the dead. The wife of a dead husband may suffer many traditional practices, thinking that the spirits anger will be quieted. Most pagan burial customs show a belief in re-incarnation of the soul. What happens to the soul when a person dies? A persons soul departs from the body at death (Genesis 35:18,19). The body returns to the dust, and the spirit (soul) returns to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7). When Jesus died (gave up the ghost), His spirit went into the hands of God (Luke 23:46). The body which is buried no longer houses the soul of th
