10 BIZARRE TRADITIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD From funny to glory, rituals from around the world could leave one shell-shocked. With innumerable races and ethnicities populating the face of the Earth, the rituals are in plenty and a list of the weird, wacky, unbelievable ones are compiled here. Take a look. 1. Lady’s finger please On account of a death in the family of a member of the Dani tribe of Indonesia, grief is expressed by cutting off a phalange of their fingers. Before amputation, the fingers are tied with a string for about half an hour to numb the sensation. Following this, the new fingertips are burnt for the formation of scar tissue. This custom is performed in order to satisfy ancestral ghosts. Even though rarely, the tribe still sporadically practices this ritual. 2. Human bone and banana soup The Yanomami tribe inhabiting villages within the Amazon rainforest, close to the border of Venezuela and Brazil, are known for their age-old tradition of endocannibalism, which means consumption of the flesh of a deceased member of one’s own tribe. However, it is different from cannibalism. In this ritual, the corpse is wrapped in leaves and left for insects to …show more content…
When a young boy attains the age of sexual maturity he goes out into the forest with the Medicine man of the tribe and other boys of his age to find and gather bullet ants. These ants are known to possess the most painful sting in the world. The sting from these vicious stingers has been compared to a bullet hitting through the flesh. The boys will collect ants, which are then drugged by the Medicine Man. Later, the drugged ants are placed in a woven mesh glove. Following the waking up of the ants from their drugged slumber, the boys must wear the gloves for about ten minutes and do a dance to take their mind off the pain. This has to be done twenty painful times before the boys can finally prove they are