Inside China's chilling cave god bride ritual where young women were left to starve to death

Local communities believed that she had gone to marry the Cave Deity. Instead of a funeral, a wedding ceremony was held.

China old folk custom sacrificed young women to become ‘Cave God’ brides who starved to death

Mentally unstable’ but ‘gentle’ young women with ‘intelligence, bright eyes and beauty’ were given up by their ‘anxious’ ...