A 94-year-old Iranian, Amou Haji, died just months after being pressured by villagers to bathe for the first time in decades.
The hermit avoided fresh food, soap, and water for decades for fear of becoming sick. He is said to have been overtaken by a fear of washing known as ablutophobia.
Haji, bent to the villagers’ request to get clean, only to fall ill not long after and subsequently pass away.
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