The world is a very strange place. Even today there are many places about which very few people know. There are still many people in the world who are not even remotely aware of modernity. Many types of tribes live in remote areas of the world. Who have surprising practices. In some tribes, there are some strange rituals that boys have to complete in order to become adults. Only then they are called men and they get married. One such tribe is in Brazil. Where boys have to get bitten by ants to prove their manhood. Let us know what is the story behind this.
Men are made by getting bitten by ants.
There is such a tribe in Brazil. Where a boy has to go through a strange ordeal to become an adult. You will be surprised if you know about this. The people of the Satere-Mawa tribe living in the Amazon forests have been following this tradition for centuries. The boys of this tribe have to prove to everyone in the community that they have grown up. For this, those boys have to get themselves bitten by dangerous ants. It is only then that their masculinity is proved and only then they can get married.
there is unbearable pain
In this practice, bullet ants, which are considered dangerous, are kept in gloves. And after this the boys have to put their hands in those gloves. Bullet ants present in gloves bite hands. After this there is unbearable pain. Boys’ hands get swollen and the pain does not go away for months. Boys have to wear these gloves for 10 minutes. And after this their traditional dance and song takes place. It is a tradition in the Satere-Mawa tribe that boys have to prove that they are capable of bearing the pain only then they are considered men.
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