Most of the customs and rituals that have survived in our society to this day contain fairly harmless and most common traditions, unlike other, less well-known ones that carry particular cruelty and excessive danger to human life. There are quite a lot of such rituals today, we will talk about some of them in our interesting article.
Self-mummification or suicide?
The tradition of turning your life into a nightmare originated in Japan at the end of the 19th century. People really believed that by mummifying themselves, they would achieve spiritual enlightenment and would never be reborn again in the future.
The process itself took quite a long time, about 6 years. To begin with, a person who decided on such a desperate step sat on the strictest diet, which included only nuts and seeds. This was to last 1000 days. With the help of such nutrition, a person completely lost fat.
Next 1000devoted to the expulsion of fluid from the body. To do this, it was necessary to eat only the roots and bark of pine trees. If after that at least someone managed to survive, he was given poisonous tea, which was prepared from the sap of the lacquer tree. This caused diarrhea and vomiting, which contributed to the complete removal of water from the body of the "future mummy".
After that, the "suicide" (no other way to call him) sat down to meditate in anticipation of his death in a small sealed room. Fortunately, self-mummification was banned in the 20th century, but, unfortunately, there are even more sophisticated and terrible rituals, which we will discuss below.
What's wrong with babies?
In India (Maharashtra) in the Grishneshwor Temple to this day the most terrible rituals of the world are practiced. One of them is dropping babies from a height of 15 meters. Yes, yes, you heard right, that's right. This is necessary in order for the child to have intelligence, good luck and he alth in the future. The ritual consists in the fact that a naked baby is lifted to a height of 15 meters and thrown. Downstairs, dad and his “inadequate successors” are waiting for him, who, with an unfolded white sheet, catch the baby. The fact remains that over the past 1.5 centuries, 3 children have crashed. Why Hindus rejoice in this is not yet fully understood. After all, the child remains with a serious psychological trauma for the rest of his life and is significantly behind in development.
Minghun, or posthumous marriage
In China, in the west, to this day they practice the most terrible customs and rituals,that defy logic and common sense. One of them is as follows: a man or woman who has never been legally married in their entire life should be buried in a pair with a dead person of the opposite sex. Horror! The Chinese believe that by performing such a ceremony, they will provide the deceased with a happy life with a "neighbor in the grave." The parents of the "dead bride" must be paid $1,200 (bride price). This practice has dire consequences. The trade in the dead in China has long been known, but that's not all. People began to go crazy, desecrating the graves of the dead.
In recent years, according to the local press, the number of desecrations has increased significantly. One such incident occurred in Yangchuan Province. A young woman tried to buy the corpse of a girl who was not picked up from the morgue. She explained this by the fact that her dead brother comes to her in a dream and demands to immediately deliver his "future wife". Agree, just a nightmare! Even worse, if for some reason the bride or groom died on the eve of the marriage ceremony, the wedding ceremony still had to take place. Thus, the living groom had to marry the "dead bride". Horror!
Dead to be torn apart by vultures: ritual or bloodthirsty cruelty?
Another cruel tradition, included in the "most terrible rituals" section, comes from Tibet. Although it has been practiced for quite a long time in the USA (Delaver). The successors of the Buddha always believed that after death the soul leaves, and the human body does not mean anything, it is likean empty dry tree that needs to be removed from the world. To do this, the "well-wishers" came up with the idea of giving the "dead" to the vultures (the good should not disappear). They cut the body into small pieces and gave it to the birds to eat.
But that's not all. After only the bones remain from the body, they grind them up and make cakes from the flour, which are eaten by smaller birds.
Terrible rituals of different tribes are also as follows: some, in order to always feel the presence of their deceased relative, grind his bones into flour and mix them with bananas. I think many have guessed what they do next with their children (for the slow-witted - they eat).
Dead food
This tradition is from the category of "the most terrible modern rituals", which is practiced in India to this day. Moreover, children are also involved in this “fear”. An Indian tribe called Aghori, in order to get rid of the fear of their own death, eat dead tribesmen who cannot be cremated (saints, pregnant women, children, unmarried women who died from an insect bite or lepers). They believe that "departure into another world" is an obstacle to spiritual enlightenment. Before eating, the "dead meat" of the deceased is thoroughly soaked in river water, and then eaten.
Scary legs
The most terrible rituals are known to be performed in China. Fortunately, many of them are not practiced in the modern world. One of these -"lotus feet" The thing is that in ancient China, the one whose feet resembled a lotus was considered a beauty. For this, girls at the age of 4 had their feet tightly bandaged with bandages, which caused them unforgettable torment. So they went up to 10 years. After that, the girls were taught mincing and swaying gait (2-3 years). And then they were already ready for marriage. The most interesting thing is that the girls were proud of their legs, despite the excruciating pain.
Walking Corpses
As has long been known, terrible rituals related to black magic are practiced in Indonesia. One of these actually excites the mind. The ritual is performed in a city called Toraji. No matter how strange it may sound, but there the corpses themselves go to their graves. And this happens because the cemetery is quite far away, so the locals ask for help from black sorcerers, who temporarily revive the deceased, and he independently follows his burial place. The only condition is that no one should touch the "living corpse", otherwise he will fall and never get up.
Unnecessary old people
This tradition, according to the author, is simply the height of cruelty and insanity. And it lies in the fact that those who, to put it mildly, are fed up with old people, and caring for them is a burden to them, kill them. What do they do with those whose lives will soon come to an end? When a person reaches the peak of helplessness, the locals simply take him to the ocean and place him on an iceberg, where the poor fellow either freezes or starves to death. Some, in order not to suffer, themselves jump into the icy water. This is the attitude of the Eskimos towards the elderly.
Poison ant mitten
The most terrible rituals in the world are also held in South Africa. One of them is the initiation of a boy into a man. To do this, the baby must place his hand in a mitten filled with the most poisonous ants in the world. The hand should stay there for at least 10 minutes. Most often, such a ritual leads to blackening of the hand or temporary paralysis. The worst thing is that after such an initiation, most die from pain shock. If a man has expressed a desire to become a real warrior, he must undergo the procedure 20 times or more. It is easy to guess that hardly anyone will live up to 20 times.
Wife's devotion
Fortunately, this ritual was banned back in the 20s of the 19th century. The thing is that in India it is customary to burn the body of the deceased. The creepiest thing is that his wife had to follow him. "In what sense?" - you ask. The woman had to put on the most beautiful outfit, go around the burning husband 7 times and join him. Yes, yes, burn alive with him in order to continue to live together in the next world. Like this! I wonder if the wife died, would the husband follow her?
People's stupidity and cruelty do not recognize any boundaries, this is proved by some religious rituals and customs that allegedly glorify God and teach children the mind. In most cases, they are invented by mentally unbalanced people or real deceivers.
