Laulasi Island - Last Pagan Priest

Last Pagan Priest

In 1980, Moses Beogo who was the last Pagan priest (Fata'abu) on Laulasi and the last to perform the shark calling tradition, died. His skull is kept with the skulls of the other priests.

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