Abandoned at birth: the cursed twins of Madagascar | Unreported World

in rural Madagascar the dead make the rules [Music] a set of taboos or prohibitions handed down from long dead ancestors controls what you eat when you work and every aspect of how you behave I've come to the town of man and jari on the isolated East Coast to investigate one extraordinary taboo in the center of town to children who carry an ancient curse here comes a Genoa terza rima Danny you know food companies in Farley coos Andy Nandita let's both Arab and Sonya they share a bonus in Belarus about sweet on fats and eating meat and AMA Giovanni and vanilla are twins and in this part of Madagascar twins are cursed their mother Ursula is from the country's smallest tribe the Anton Bakker one of the tribes to booze is that twins bring misfortune when her twins were born she says her husband told her to abandon them she refused to give them up and moved in with her sister and mother then her mother got sick and died Israel Madani Younis under our theorem is much you can also make our women and a zucchini very Watson [Music] quick showers will you beeping even Shazia Taha'a anita her neighbours were convinced the death of Ursula's mother was the twins fault Nina's and 800 generic second Christina Tim Tschida vainly shooting this phenomena we should put a sign ship attendance as away forced from her village Ursula is now trying to rebuild her life in Marin jari [Music] on the outskirts of the town more outcasts if twins are bad luck parylene must be the most unlucky woman in Madagascar she has three sets of twins these only combo for Lonnie Corolla Kareena for Lucy Carla for example - Marika this tiny tent is now their home because of the taboo it's incredibly small space this tent is dark leaky and it's damp I can feel it rises to the ground at the middle of the rainy season and they've only got strong matting for flooring in this affluent academy enough for this a rom ubuntu leafy removers and one dish can lead to turn right all from taste the components of physical cake layer to see the body eatable no mere chimera taro Carolyn and her husband used to make a living by mending clothes but moving house all the time meant they lost their customers now they can barely afford rice don't go to Lucy tomorrow they're over there them altogether six families and their twins have fled from nearby villages to this camp are these two your twins what are their names Patricia Patricia hwang-ji was the first woman to move here three years ago after her family gave her a terrible choice in Isaac we're now in taste a new one the militate oh now from the human alula temperature care to know the audience is to fix a no chemicals anchors English a new machine that she Lucas mother fell eternal God says my food without anger this place looks like a refugee camp and these women really are refugees but just because they wouldn't give up their children the land for this camp was given by the office of the mayor of man and jari Martel Raza find rocoto he's determined to help banish the taboo firstly by giving these families a home at the moment that women and their families are living in these tents these tents are temporary the house for them would be built here what does this taboo mean for a twin that's born twins they are not like come on children they are to be rejected in the deep country they are not considered as persons now of course I am I belong to this it in the group but I don't agree this tunnel nowadays we have got destroyed for human rights and twins are human they are members of the community why reject them [Music] when twins are rejected they often end up here it's called the catcher orphanage but these twins are not orphans their parents are alive living nearby the center is funded by a French charity and run by Julie Romana it's home to a dozen sets of twins but hundreds have passed through over the years on this movie RBC visited no love even think Matt may have give it to you you should do more fees know how much amazing [Music] this is the district hospital in man and joy where we've heard that an abandoned twin has been brought in it's only three days old she's premature and tiny the hospital staff know little about her only the village she comes from and that her sibling died shortly after birth meet Jennifer from Allah alone a monopoly so that initial Amish mati the Moravian for myself I'm allergic she looks so so tiny and small and frail it's not a great start for this little baby I want to find out more about this twin and how this taboo could be stronger than the bond a mother has with her newborn children all I know is that she was born in one of the isolated villages out in the bush in the rainy season the roads are impassable the only way to get there is by boat the Pangolin canal was built by French colonizers a hundred years ago [Music] most people in these villages still live off the land [Music] the twin-turbo is a sensitive subject Martel the mayor of man and jari has agreed to act as my guide this is Anton and Dava where the abandoned twin came from I wanted to meet her mother her name is Cecile Cecile and her daughter her husband andrea ber her mother and grandmother all crowd in while the rest of the village looks on when did you find out you were carrying twins she didn't know she didn't know the person they was so afraid that they gave up the babies [Music] the Anton baka believe their ancestors still live among them and can bless or curse following their rules or taboos Adria / says that younger people want to get rid of the taboo I tell me the village chiefs can communicate with the ancestors so they can ask permission to change the taboos do you think this could ever change Miriam Bonnie fan fic is awesome of mana the mantle of Commerce event occurring above walk zero whenever see one thing every [Music] the Chiefs with the power to lift the twin taboo live deeper into the bush it's a very traditional village the first ancestor of some older people landed in this village they can accept other people part we have attempted to look for to make sure that we cover this topic so the two boom has an effect isolated them from other tribes that shit yeah the taboos origins are uncertain most stories talk about a battle a tribe fleeing their village a woman forgets one of her twins when the villagers return to save it their massacred the tribes elders then declare it to boo to raise twins [Music] at mayor Martel's request the Chiefs have gathered to meet us is ending at Uncle Adam cigarette martini we buy Corrigan's edwin Rizzuto a guitars you can browse around July on boy tokens and there's a Ruger they remember to bring energy facility Jefferson a resin and a 1/4 of a circle to college it we learn us a fragile ready walk Ram is Sultan new single further sake you legit GJ from Russell finish alone is a junket on a futon do you not care about these children who are abandoned by their mothers running under the Nelson is get the marinade so you don't care about the innocent children present Corrado differ in different as an assumed by top Nanga hearin aid encantan long mana tape I'm Russian and rough watching kassadin's I'm Queenie lossy welcome to the humble fucking lady she's for me jarasandha don t say [Music] how do you think the meeting went I think it's a deadlock they they are not ready to change their mind at all within two or three decade I think they don't want to break this tab [Music] back in man and jari I want to know how the twin from the hospital is doing [Music] we've heard the abandoned newborn has been brought to this neighborhood she's apparently found a new mother who's gonna look after her Juliet is a local teacher she's 40 single and has never had a child turns on TVs as a combination of inland dream and dreams and the height of the antenna still crisp even army sanding is so novel amber missiles onto the land a doctor incidentally is the tongue I think that in Nantou territory tinkles and the FARC wheeze and I eat an ant - mm incidentally has a thing that kind eyes Juliet has named her baby knee Otto it means to rise are you worried that she's so small he's in shock after Sonya that in me loves and facility Juliette's attitude really shows the difference between the villages and the town there's a mother who abandoned this tiny baby for being a twin in a village nearby and yet Juliette's ecstatic at the chance of being a mother what do you think about the woman who abandoned this baby because she is a twin Zorua team Sandiford carbonate is a young government and we farted amudhan thousand and a thousand suns are over will erect a peace account arrows and physicians a few Warren away Smyrna in Fubon dr. Lewis I go back to the catcher center another abandoned baby has arrived the local GP dr. Maurice who's also from the Anton baka tribe checks on the children cos I played it for a living yeah the Papa has given every Faculty of say discrimination oh cool Bascom ma petite car is always touchy so she only as he's a twin it should be taboo fronting baka to visit dr. Maurice remember the chef traditional Indian wave are we truly chef traditionally see man so touch me hold on these children will soon be far away from the effects of this taboo it's rare for twins to be adopted locally nearly all these twins are in the process of being adopted by new parents in France [Music] the jockey de l'heure de modo que quieres que se dong Familia forwarded a product a tewara the Papa mama over Tucson this is a cylinder st Valley paid origin a vivo of at noon PT mathusa me sylveon kapa haka memory society mocked affection [Music] [Music] Juliette's baby neova is now 2 weeks old she's brought her to the Medical Center for a checkup [Music] mozzarella [Music] to settable fate don't have a MIDI facility only thousand people doc llama Giavotella popular so Latin alphabet we control an alphabet led visit the passenger research ba CK diction is a set of Urashima category kou-san suppose education aqua makoto protocol Nagisa yep a therapist exact the epitaphs de Mayo party fond one mystery of agreement the taboo sasame competition the track is a Manasa how do you feel now that the doctor says she's doing well the middle with a llama sorry still moving this underwater militarily listens all you need is a sleep novel will grow up in a town that has already begun to move on in the beliefs of the past [Music] and Juliet hopes that by the time she's old enough to understand the twin-turbo will belong only to the ancestors thanks for watching this classic unreported world episode click the logo to subscribe for more award-winning documentaries from the unreported world team we upload videos every Wednesday and Sunday keeping you up to date with content from all over the world [Music]

Channel: Unreported World

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Id: Srk7MugXR1Y

Length: 23min 39sec (1419 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 26 2017

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This is a doc about beautiful twin babies born into a culture with firmly held superstitions about the bad luck that twins bring