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The body was placed on a trough...
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...and carried for several miles through the thickets.
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If the dead person is an adult...
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...the body is tied to a ladder
and carried to the cemetery.
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It's a journey that can take hours.
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Crossing a river with a corpse.
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Despite the misery in which the Hurdanos live...
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...their moral and religious sense is the same...
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... as anywhere else in the world.
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Each grave is indicated by a cross.
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Or by a piece of wood.
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The only luxuries in Las Hurdes are the churches.
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This is in one of the poorest villages.
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A better-off home.
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Father, son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren.
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The paper cut-outs on the wall...
:24:37
...add a touch of interior design.
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In some villages, a woman roams the streets at night.
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She announces deaths.
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She rings a bell and stops to pray.
:24:58
Everyone lives in a single room.