Weird Rituals Around the World PDF

## Weird Rituals ### Dancing with the Dead - Madagascar A funeral tradition followed by the Malagasy tribe in Madagascar, people literally dance with dead bodies as part of the Famadihana custom. After bringing bodies of ancestors from their burial place, they rewrap them in fresh cloth and dance...

## Weird Rituals ### Dancing with the Dead - Madagascar A funeral tradition followed by the Malagasy tribe in Madagascar, people literally dance with dead bodies as part of the Famadihana custom. After bringing bodies of ancestors from their burial place, they rewrap them in fresh cloth and dance around the tomb to live music. The ritual is followed once in seven years, but has been in the decline of late. ### Throwing the baby for good luck - India This ritual is mostly followed in Karnataka where newborn babies are thrown off the 50-feet high Sri Santeswar temple. Before you jump to a conclusion, the babies are obviously caught by the family in a cloth. Couples who are blessed with a baby after taking a vow at the temple follow this 500-year-old tradition. It is believed to bring good luck to the babies. ### The Crocodile Cult - New Guinea In Papua New Guinea, as part of a rite of passage, a boy will go into a Hans Tambaran, or a hut, and his skin will be cut and scarred to look like a crocodile. The ritual is a symbol of a boy being eaten by a crocodile and coming back to life as a man. ### The Ant Gloves - Brazil Rites of passage are as old as time, and today, many young kids go through it in some shape or form, be it bar mitzvah, sweet sixteen, or humiliating prom. But for the Satere Mawé Tribe, they force their boys to shove their hands into gloves full of ants that inflict painful bites. They wear the gloves twenty times for ten minutes each time as they dance around. The ants are not any normal house ant but the bullet ant, an ant that got its name because its bite feels like being shot by a bullet.