Weird Rituals Around the World

Religion is something that every individual can be very dedicated to but there are many weird traditions that no one can deny. Sometime people practice some rituals which are adopted as a part of religion. There are a lot of traditions that seems really bizarre to the world where it is not followed. Here are ten weird Rituals that are still observed around the word.


10. Tooth Filling Ceremony

Tooth Filing Ceremony is one of the biggest Hindu religious ceremonies. This ceremony is executed by smoothing down tooth and eye-tooth. In Hindu Balinese belief system, this celebration helps people to free themselves from all invisible evil forces



9. The Vegetarian Festival

Vegetarian Festival is an annual event in Thailand held during the ninth lunar month( 27th sept to 5th Oct ) of the Chinese calendar. The participant vegetarian believes good fortune for those who religiously participate in the festival. Local and Chinese ancestry strictly observe this festival for 10-days during which they take only vegetarian diet. They believe that it will clean their soul. In many Chinese shrines and temples and artistic displays such as walking barefooted over hot coals and climbing ladders with rungs having blades, they singsong name “Ma Song”.


8. Burial Ritual Yanomami


The bodies are Burned, and the remains of the skeleton crushed and bone powder is kept in calabashes until all of the important funeral ceremonies are finished, some of the powder/ashes are mixed in a banana drink for these occasions which is given to the tribe member to drink, and the remaining is buried near the family’s fireplace.


6. Satere-Mawe Bullet Ant Ritual

The Satere-Mawe is a native Indian tribe they live in the Amazon, in this tribe they have tradition that when a young man is entered to manhood he has to wear glove which is full of fainted satere-mawe, bullet ants. When the men wear this glove, ants are awakened and bite on his hand which he has to wear for ten minutes. The bite of the bullet ant is more painful than the bite of any other creature in this world. It is said that it has to be repeated several time in a year.


4. Sholapur Baby Throwing


In Sholapur district of Maharashtra, Western India, the infants are thrown on the bed-sheet hold by men from a Muslim shrine’s roof which has a height of 50feet approximately. The babies are then given to their mother immediately.

Sholapur Villagers say that no baby injured for last 500 years in this ceremony. People believe that this custom helps their children to live healthy and wealthy life. Parents who want their infants to participate in the event first take swear at the Baba Sheikh Umar Saheb Dargah.

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