Strange traditions

Strange traditions

Ting -1905

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Grinding down teeth in Bali

The Balinese strongly believe in the spirit world and believe that fangs are a sign of evil. Therefore, every teenager at the age of 18 simply grinds them down. No anesthesia (not even alcohol) - a specially trained person comes and grinds the front fangs to the same level with the rest of the teeth with an ordinary file

Throwing children in Western India

• All parents want their children to be healthy, but in India this is treated rather strangely. For a child to be lucky, healthy and rich, they simply take him and ... throw him from a 15-meter tower to the ground. Good luck! Not everything is as tough as it seems - several men with stretched sheets are waiting for the child below. Many parents choose to dump their children on their own. May accuracy be with them!

Ant gloves in Brazil

• In Brazil's Satere Mawe, boys have a hard time. To become a man, a boy needs to sit in gloves for 11 hours. It seems that nothing complicated, but there is one “but” - gloves are filled with a bunch of predatory ants, whose bite is 30 times more painful than a bee, so the test subject should try not to even move his fingers. Or endure the pain.

Corpse soup in Tibet

• Hundreds of delicacies around the world are made from meat. And how do you like the chowder on the broth of the dead? In Tibet, people are rarely buried in the ground - the soil is so frozen that only wealthy citizens can order a pit. Usually the Tibetans take the corpse to the rock, crush its bones, incise the body in several places and leave it to be torn apart by vultures.
• If the deceased was rich during his lifetime, his corpse is washed in a cauldron, and meat and other treats are boiled on the resulting water. There is simply no end to those who want to try such a dish.

Face piercing in Phuket (Thailand)

• Every year, a mass ritual is held on the island to cleanse from evil spirits and demons. The essence is simple: you need to pierce your cheeks with a sword, a pike or any other sharp object - the more punctures, the better. According to local beliefs, this is how the gods put a person into a trance and protect them from evil. Look at the photo - you can enter a trance, at least from a painful shock.

Tower jumping in Melanesia

• From such a 25-meter tower, a man needs to jump headfirst to become healthy. There is a nuance: if you do not touch the ground with your head or shoulder, the jump is not counted. You understood correctly: you need to hit your head on the ground from 25 meters in order not to get sick. Strange, right? Before the jump, the men finish all their worldly affairs in advance in case of death.

Lotus feet in China

• According to ancient Chinese tradition, the bride must have a tiny foot. Girls with a standard size feet are often ridiculed and not taken as wives. To do this, from the age of 4-5, girls' legs are tightly bandaged so that the feet simply do not grow, and for the next 10 years, future wives endure unbearable pain in the name of beauty.
• The procedure deforms the foot, and by the age of 18 it grows no longer than 10 centimeters. In the Chinese provinces, there is a whole shoe industry for this occasion. The tradition has almost become obsolete (fortunately), but in remote conservative settlements the ritual is still performed.

Feel like a woman in Kenya

• Not all traditions of the peoples of the world are painful for women. In Kenya, on the contrary, the role of a woman in the family should be honored at the highest level. Therefore, the first month after the wedding, a man walks in women's clothes and performs "female" duties in order to learn to appreciate his wife and her work. Kenya like.