The Omaha, a tribe of American Indians, slit the soles of the feet of those killed by lightning; the Basuto and Bechuana slit the sinews and spinal cord of their dead; the Herbert River aborigines of Australia beat the body enough to break its bones and fill incisions made in the body with stones.
Moshoeshoe I, c.1786-1870; paramount chief of southern Sotho; founder of Basuto kingdom (later Basutoland, then Lesotho)