http://cdn.all-that-is-interesting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/weirdest-historical-facts-sati.jpg Sati funeral practice in India Source: http://pinkyiswaiting.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/sati.html Up until 1869, some areas of India practiced Sati, a funerary ritual in which a recent widow would burn herself on the pyre with her deceased husband. The act is believed to have been inspired from the legend of goddess Sati who burnt herself alive to save her father the humiliation that…
