Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Lace bras offerings for dead in Hong Kong

News - Hindustan Times, India

Superstitious Hong Kongers are snapping up effigies of saucy underwear to burn as offerings to randy relatives at an upcoming Chinese festival of the dead.
Black lace bras and wedding dresses are among the racier paper offerings on sale ahead of the Ching Ming festival, during which believers burn likenesses of items their late loved ones would like in heaven, according to newspaper Apple Daily

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