I recently read this:
>The reason that part of the ritual exists is to break connection with recent ancestors whose spirit still carries cries for vengeance, or who wish to cling to life by living through you – this can particularly occur where there is a history of war, conflict, etc - sometimes a recent ancestor wants you to continue that conflict. It is also about filtering out ‘bad ancestors’ – we all have at least one person in our family lines that was corrupt, vicious, or generally a bad person, and they can try to bind themselves to you under certain circumstances.
Is this the same as the"cord cutting" of the old threads?


I don't want to write the name of the source so as to not generate a link, but you can find it by quote searching "The reason that part of the ritual exists is to break connection with recent"