Fecharese people

The Fecharese people are an ethnic group native to Fechara.

Funerals


When a Fecharese person dies, their body is prepared, starting with the hair. A thick tuft of the hair is braided, cut off and coated with a layer of wax. The rest of the hair is cut off and burried. After cutting the hair off, the body is cremated and its ashes are put in an urn which are later deposited into funeral niches.

The family can choose to put the niche in either a public graveyard tree or in the deceased's house's mausoleum.

Public niches are birdhouse shaped, with a hole, a door and the deceased’s name engraved in the front. Their insides contain the funeral urn with the deceased’s braid coiled around it.

Private niches hang from a rope in between a tablet engraved with the deceased’s name and the braid. These niches have a door in the back to access the chamber that contains the funeral urn.