The Cursed Twins

No-one is quite sure\how the taboo against twins, and the belief they bring bad luck arose, but most\stories talk about an ancient battle which caused a tribe to flee their\village. One mother forgot one of her twins and when the villagers returned to\save it, they were all massacred. The tribe’s elders then declared it taboo to\raise twins.

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King and Fuller meet\Ursula, the mother of two twins, Giovanni and Venua. She says that when they\were born her husband told her to abandon them and refused to recognise them\legally. Ursula refused to give them up and moved in with her sister and\mother. Then, her mother got sick and died. She tells King that her family and\neighbours blamed the death on the twins: “When\my mother fell ill and died everyone said that her death was her punishment\because she didn’t respect her culture - the ancestors.”

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The Unreported World team also meets\Carolin, who is considered especially unlucky as she has given birth to three\sets of twins. She tells King that she has had to move house around thirty\times due to the taboo because her neighbours feared the twins. Now, she’s\forced to live in a tiny tent and is struggling to feed her family. Living\alongside her, in what amounts to a small refugee camp for twins, are six other\families who have all had to flee their villages.

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