26 The Most Unique Traditions Around the World You Never Believe Still Exist

1. In Papua New Guinea, when someone dies, family members cut off their own fingers as a sign of mourning.

2. In Pakistan, smoking dead scorpions is a practice where users crush the scorpion into powder and mix it with tobacco or hashish. The effects last for about 10 hours.

3. In Thailand, during the Phuket Vegetarian Festival, religious people pierce their cheeks, tongues, and bodies with sharp objects to purify themselves and honor the Gods

4. In Spain, during La Tomatina, people throw tomatoes at each other in a massive food fight held every year for fun and celebration.

5. In Brazil, young men wear gloves filled with venomous bullet ants to prove their strength and masculinity.

6. In Denmark, if you reach the age of 25 and are not married, you will be tied to a chair and pelted with cinnamon.

7. In Madagascar, families exhume their relatives, rewrap their remains, and dance with them as part of an ancestral celebration.

8. There is a tribe in Indonesia that digs up their dead relatives once a year, dresses them well,and cleans them to mark a celebration of their lives.

9. In China, young girls' feet were bound tightly in an ancient practice to achieve "lotus feet," a sign of beauty and status, until the practice was banned in the early 20th century.

10. In Spain, men dressed as devils jump over babies lying on mattresses during the 'El Colacho' festival to cleanse them of sins and protect them from evil spirits.

11. In Japan, a number of Buddhist monks embalmed themselves while they were still alive, slowly starving themselves and meditating in an attempt to seek enlightenment.

12. In Scotland, brides and grooms were pelted with rotten food, ashes and flour in a pre-wedding ritual called “blackening”, which was believed to prepare them for the hardships of marriage.

13. Ramnami Tribe in Chhattisgarh India, is epitome of selfless loyalty towards the Lord Ram, Showing their true devotion for Shree Ram whole community have had tattooed Ram all over their body and still following this customs since more than 100s years.

14. In Myanmar and Thailand, Kayan women wear brass bands around their necks to lengthen their necks, considering it a sign of beauty and cultural pride.

15. In the Amazon, the Yanomami people eat the ashes of their deceased relatives, believing that doing so keeps their spirits alive within them.

16. Hindu festival of GAJAN is celebrated across West Bengal and Tripura, India. It is symbolised by a high pole, from which the devotees hang suspended from iron hooks, as a symbolic sacrifice to Lord Shiva.

17. This Papua New Guinea tribe mummifies past chiefs and places them on an altar

18. The Suri tribe of Ethiopia belives that for a cow to produce more milk, you must "eat" its vagina and caress its udders.

19. Something you women will like, In the Wodaabe tribe of Morocco, women are allowed to choose a new husband every year. A ceremony is held, where men paint faces, the woman can sleep with as many men as she can on the day untill she finds the right match. Thinking of relocating?

20. Well well, this sounds disgusting, but it happens. In Sambia tribe of Papua, New Guinea, when a boy turns seven, he starts feeding on semen of older men. Men ejaculate and the boys feed on them, the more you drink, the stronger you get, or so the believe

21. If that aint shocking, then you haven't heard of Chewa tribe of Malawi, they slice the throat of a dead person, pour in water, then cut an outlet in the stomach to collect the same water. The water is then used to cook meals during the funeral

22. In the Banyankole tribe of Uganda, the bride's aunt has to have sex with the groom to be, so as to prove that he can perform. Now imagine that old wringly aunt, would you even get an erection?

23. When a small child from the Toraja tribe in Indonesia dies without teeth forming yet, they burry them inside a growing tree near the village. A large enough hole is drilled and the child is placed inside a fetal position wrapped in a cloth. The hole is then sealed with bamboo logs and the tree regenerates around the child and absorbs it.

24. For 2,000 years, the people of Igorot Sagada in the Philippines have practiced the tradition of jamming their dead into compact hanging coffins and nailing them into the cliffside.

25. Lip Plates: Among the Mursi, Chai, Suri and Tirma groups in Africa, it is a traditional norm for the women to wear a piece of large pottery or wooden discs or ‘plates’ in their lower lips. To an outsider, it may appear a kind of body mutilation, but for them, it serves as an expression of female maturity. It is usually done by the mother or another kinsmen when a girl is about sixteen years of age. Initially, the cut is held open by a wooden plug until it heals. And then they progressively change the plates for larger plates. Most of them go till discs up to 10-15 cm in diameter that can fit into the lower lip.

26. Living with the dead In the Toraja region of Sulawesi, Indonesia, living with dead members of the family for years after their death is not unusual. It is believed that the dead are not truly gone until a water buffalo has been sacrificed at their funeral to serve as the vehicle for the afterlife. The dead bodies are injected with a preservative called Formulin, which stops the bodies from decomposing and they are washed and clothed regularly. They have a room of their own where they are served food and cigarettes two times a day. They even have a bowl in a corner of the room which acts as the toilet.

26 The Most Unique Traditions Around the World You Never Believe Still Exist

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