Dead mum diagnosed a WITCH after ‘giving birth 10 DAYS after her death’

A DEAD woman has been called a “witch” after giving birth 10 days after she died, shock local reports claim.

By Nicholas Bieber /

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SHOCK DISCOVERY: Funeral parlour workers made the finding just hours before the funeral

“Traumatised” funeral parlour workers have told how they found a stillborn baby inside 33-year-old Nomveliso Mdoyi’s coffin the day before her funeral.

The jaw-dropping discovery has left people in her local South Africa village of Mthayisi, on the eastern Cape, accusing her of being a witch.

The mother-of-five’s mum has described the finding at Lindokuhle Funeral parlour in Mbizana as the “shock of her life”.

Owner of the parlour Fundile Makalana said: "We were so shocked and frightened that we did not even have time to look at the sex of the baby.

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    "I have been in the business for more than 20 years and I have never heard of a dead woman giving birth."

    Although “coffin births", also known as postmortem foetal extrusions, are rare, it is possible during the decomposition of a dead body.

    The baby is pushed out by the increasing pressure of "intra-abdominal gases" building up inside the corpse.

    Medical experts also say the foetus could be pushed out as a result of "contracting and relaxing muscles during death".

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      The mum and her child died after feeling “short of breath” and were buried in the same coffin on Saturday.

      The woman's mum‚ Mandzala Mdoyi‚ 76, said: "I was devastated by the untimely death of my daughter.

      "Now I got the shock of my life to learn that she has given birth while she had been dead for 10 days.”