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.
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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.
-Compiled by Earth Wonder
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