Banning the bride and groom from bathing, using the toilet and not leaving the house for 72 hours is one of the world’s most outrageous customs.
In Denmark, if you are still single on your 25th birthday, people will follow the strange custom of throwing cinnamon powder at you . By the age of 30, if you are still lonely, people will use pepper instead of cinnamon powder to throw from head to toe.
This unique Danish custom is to wish and remind single people to quickly find a life partner.
Every year in the first week of December, hundreds of babies are thrown from above the Sri Santeswar temple in Indi, Karnataka, India, at a height of more than 15m and the baby is supported below.
This is a rather horrible ritual that Hindus and Muslims perform.
The custom of amputating fingers in the island of New Guinea , Indonesia is extremely scary. This is one of the scariest customs in the world.
The Dani here often amputate their fingers and bury them with the corpse when a member of the tribe dies, his or her spouse dies.
In Scotland, the bride and groom are often smeared all over their bodies, people can throw, toss, sprinkle on them yolks, egg whites, sauces, molasses, duck feathers… Then, the bride and groom The bridegroom will have to parade around his area.
This traditional custom is said to ward off evil spirits and help newlyweds bond and face hardships and challenges together in a newly-wed marriage.
In Indonesia, the Tidong people have a strange custom that prohibits the bride and groom from bathing, going to the toilet and not leaving the house for 72 hours after the official wedding day.
They believe that, if they do not follow this taboo, they will have many bad luck such as broken marriage, premature death of children or betrayal of spouses. Therefore, newlyweds often limit their food intake.
Drinking the old man’s sperm. According to Orijin culture, boys of the Sambia tribe of Papua New Guinea are usually taken from their families at the age of seven to live with the elders for about ten years. During this time, they will drink the sperm of the tribe’s elders to become a masculine and strong man. They also have to poke sharp sticks into their nostrils until they bleed to prove that they can endure any pain.
The festival of skewering objects through people. The annual “Nine Cannons” festival is an opportunity for religious fanatics in Phuket, Thailand to show their religious strength. They participate in rituals of stabbing themselves with all kinds of sharp objects. Many bizarre objects such as iron rods, swords, even bicycles and guns were seen piercing the cheeks and tongues of the devotees.
Jump from the wooden tower . On the Pacific island of Vanuatu, the Naghol man is recognized as an adult when he dares to jump from a rickety wooden tower to the ground. The entire protective gear was just a piece of wire wrapped around his ankles to prevent them from crashing into the ground, even though he was only a few centimeters off the ground when he landed.
Festival of self-punishment. Shia Muslims around the world beat themselves up during the annual religious festival Ashura. They use whips, even chains with knives to hurt themselves, thereby commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. Hussein was killed in the 7th century Battle of Karbala in Iraq – an event that led to the current split between Shia and Sunni Muslims.