6 Creepiest Traditions In The World You Won't Believe Exist

6 Creepiest Traditions In The World You Won't Believe Exist

1: Bullet ant gloves.

Boys of the Amazonian tribe have to prove their manhood when they come of age by wearing a woven mitt in which deadly creatures called bullet ant are placed. Then, they wear these mitts on hands and dance for 10 minutes.

The bizarre part is that they have to repeat this at least 20 times in their lifetime.

The tradition which is followed by Sateré-Mawé people not only make the boys prove their manhood but also make them collect bullet ants from the Amazon forest. To provide you with a better picture, the gloves worn by them contain dozens of those ants, and each ant's sting is 30 times more painful than that of a bee.

2: Hindu Thaipusam festival piercings.

Thaipusam, a festival celebrated in Singapore amongst Hindu devotees. In this period, the devotees abstain themselves from eating with the belief that it will cleanse their bodies. That's nothing unusual, right? Well, people become a part of it with all kinds of body piercings. Some carry a milk pot too, but that is painful.

3: Night hunting in Bhutan.

This tradition is called Bomena in the eastern parts of the Himalayan kingdom where young men go out in search of love at night and for the same reason they break into the rooms of an eligible spinster. They spend the night there and in case caught, they have to marry the girl. A guy has much more risks of getting married because the entire family sleeps in the same room while the couple make-out, mostly.

4: Burial ritual Yanomami

The Yanomami people live in Amazon rainforests, with an approximate populace of 35,000 people living in 200-250 villages. They follow the ritual of endocannibalism, it's weird because they consume the ashes of dead people. They even preserve the ashes to consume in the years to come.

5: Tooth filing, Bali.

Do you want to get rid of greed, lust, anger, confusion, stupidity, jealousy, ill-will, or intoxication (either by passion or drunkenness)? Well, then you should follow the tradition of Manusa Yadnya (ceremony for humans). They believe that a human will not be affected by all that's mentioned after getting their tooth filled. Have you hit puberty?

6: Baby throwing, India.

The tradition is followed in the state of Karnataka where infants are thrown off the balconies of houses in order to bring good luck, health and prosperity in their lives. It almost feels as if an action scene of a film is being shot, the only difference is the surroundings echo with the cries of the little ones thrown off.