This is a photograph of the "Sacred Tree on an otherwise modern street. Around it are tied red cloths and upon it are hung testimonials of the tree's efficasy. A small amount of incense is burned before it by those who look to it for supernatural aid to cure their ills. The dead are believed to hover over this tree for some time after their spirits have left their earthly bodies. And so we see some, on the day a relative dies led by professional mourners to the tree where they conduct a ceremony of worship for the spirit of the dead."
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