Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo
via news.mongabay.com
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When a young boy went missing near his mother’s rice field in Indonesian Borneo, the entire village searched for him. After nearly a day, he was found near a large strangler fig tree. The boy insisted he hadn’t been hiding. Spirits living in the fig tree had called his name and lured him away, he […]