Girls and women isolated in Nepal during their periods because they are considered impure, sometimes dying as a result; skeletons exhumed for a funeral parade; animals dragged before a court for a proper trial… Some of these rituals still exist today. And like all rituals, no one really knows why.
In these ten short stories inspired by ten real but absurd rituals, horror mingles with a smile, disbelief with outrage. Ten stories to laugh bitterly, shiver, feel indignant—and wonder how much violence still hides behind the word “tradition.”