Top 10 Strangest Cultural Traditions and Ceremonies!!

Top 10 Strangest Cultural Traditions and Ceremonies!! While strange is certainly a matter of perception, you won't BELIEVE this list of ancient traditions that still exists today! From shocking to disturbing and even absurd...Zero2Hero covers them. Learn about our discovery of these insane ceremony. Hear rituals and beliefs explained, Hindu, Ashura, and more!. Don't forget to subscribe! https://goo.gl/NXuChu And you won't believe these bizarre examples of the Mandela Effect!    • Mandela Effect Explained! Bizarre examples...   Strange is a matter of perception. What you are willing to accept as sane or crazy is based upon your individual paradigm. Well, for us here at Zero2Hero, we find the following 10 cultural practices to be some of the strangest we’ve ever seen! From extreme body modifications to daring coming of age rituals, and stay tuned to find out why some people throw their newborn babies out of windows! 10. Torajan burial traditions – Indonesia On the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, live a tribe of people known as the Torajan. The Torajan people have strong cultural and religious beliefs about death and how the dead should be treated. It is believed that a person is not truly dead until a buffalo has been killed sacrificially at the funeral ceremony, the buffalo is thought to be the vehicle to safety in the afterlife. Those buried without the sacrifice are thought to be ‘lost’ in death. Until a buffalo is prepared for sacrifice the dead body is kept in the family home, it is cared for as if still alive, being bathed, fed and talked to regularly. What’s more than this, is that the Torajan people also perform what’s called a “ma’nene” ceremony – a second funeral. In this ceremony, a number of years after death, the body is exhumed from its tomb and washed, redressed and worshipped by the living family members. 9. Mentawaian teeth chiselling – Indonesia Next up is a very bizarre tradition of body modification, also found in Indonesia – this time in the Mentawaian village. This cultural tradition is practiced only by the woman, as it is believed that woman are considerably more attractive if their teeth are chiselled down to sharp points. Some girls in the tribe undergo this modification at puberty as a kind of superstition, they want to be seen as beautiful so that they will have good fortune and can have a balanced perception of their beauty in both body and soul. Some women, however, only undergo the ritual because their husbands have requested it, they often believe having chiselled teeth will prevent their husbands leaving them for another woman. The real kicker of this tradition is that the chiselling is done without any anaesthetics or pain relief. The woman must endure the pain. Umm…NO THANK YOU! 8. 30th birthday traditions – Germany This one is a little more light-hearted than the previous examles, although very strange all the same. In Northern Germany there is a tradition that if you are still unmarried on your 30th birthday, your friends get to dress you up in silly clothes and watch you do chores. That’s right, on your birthday you have very specific chores to do, depending on gender, but all while looking like a complete fool. The females have to clean their friends’ doorknobs with a toothbrush, while the males have to sweep the stairs of somewhere very busy and very public. The only way to get out of doing such chores is to receive a kiss from a member of the opposite sex. For males, though, the tradition can often go even further. For example, not just any silly costume can be worn but, rather, they must dress in drag to do their public sweeping. And friends will not help, but instead hinder their efforts by constantly scattering bottle tops all over the steps to give the poor lad more work to do. The tradition of the kiss to excuse the chores also goes further for the men, as, not just any member of the opposite sex will do but it has to be a virgin! I’m still wondering how they prove it! 7. Satere-Mawe coming of age ritual – Amazon The Satere-Mawe tribe of the Amazon have some crazy ideas for initiation ceremonies and this one tops them all. In this tribe, when a boy reaches puberty and becomes a man, they must take part in a very dangerous and painful ritual involving the bullet ant. The bullet ant is said to be the insect with the most painful sting in the world, compared by many to being hit by a bullet – hence the name. When the young boys reach puberty, they go into the jungle with an elder from the tribe and collect bullet ants. The insects are then drugged and secured into a woven glove, which the boy must wear for ten minutes. When the boy puts on the glove and the ants wake up they will start to sting his hand repeatedly until the glove is taken off. It is said that if you do not take part in this ritual you will never truly be a man.