Ep. 455: The Wager with David Grann
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Importance of Semen and Rituals
Divingon: When you died at sea is a last, unfortunately many people died at sea on this expedition about nearly 2,000 people went and of them about more than 1,300 perished. They would have a ceremony and they would usually wrap you in a hammock, your hammock, and they would put some kind of weights and tons of cannonball or some other weight in the hammock attached. And before they dumped you overboard, they would make sure the last stitch they put through your nose just to make sure you were actually dead. So one of the rituals was they would... Was there ever an account of the last stitch waking someone up? Well, you do have to
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