Night-time Cemetery Rituals, Singapore (4) - Cemetery plot for fetuses and dead babies

The Hell deity tradition in Singapore is intimately linked to the post-mortal journey of the soul, and to objects and places associated with the afterlife. Graveyards thus play a significant role as they provide a tangible link between the realms of the living and of the dead. During Ghost Month in 2010, 2014, 2017 and 2019 I visited the 3.18 square kilometer Choa Chu Kang Cemetery to observe night-time graveyard rituals in a cemetery plot dedicated to aborted fetuses' and dead babies. This photograph is of the cemetery plot described in my book in chapter 6: "Voices from the Underworld" published by Manchester University Press, and available on Amazon. The lunar Seventh Month (Chinese Gho...View all