The most terrible rituals of the world. The most terrible modern rituals

Most of the customs and rituals that have survived to this day in our society contain rather innocuous and most widespread traditions, unlike other, less well-known ones, which carry particular cruelty and excessive danger to human life. There are quite a lot of such rituals for today, we will tell about some of them in our interesting article.

Self-suicide or suicide?

The tradition of turning his life into a nightmare began in Japan at the end of the 19th century. People really believed that by mummifying themselves they would achieve spiritual enlightenment and in the future they would never be reborn again.

The process itself took quite a long time, about 6 years. To begin with, a man deciding to take such a desperate step sat down on a strict diet, which included only nuts and seeds. This should have lasted 1000 days. With the help of this diet, the person was completely deprived of fat.

The next 1000 was dedicated to expelling the liquid from the body. For this it was necessary to eat only the roots and bark of the pine. If after this, at least someone managed to survive, they gave him a poisonous tea, which was prepared from the juice 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 this "suicide" (in another way you will not name it) sat down to meditate in anticipation of his death in a small sealed room. Fortunately, in the twentieth century, samification was banned, but, unfortunately, there are even more sophisticated and terrible rites, which we will discuss below.

And what is the blame for babies?

In India (Maharashtra state), the most terrible rituals of the world are practiced in the Grishneshvor Temple. One of them is dropping babies from a 15-meter height. Yes, yes, you did not misinterpret, that's it. This is necessary to ensure that the child in the future has the mind, luck and health. The ritual is that the naked baby is raised to a 15-meter height and thrown. Below him, the pope and his "inadequate successors" await him, who, with an unfolded white sheet, catch the baby. The fact remains that over the last 1.5 centuries, 3 children were killed. Why Hindus rejoice at this, until it is fully understood. After all, the child for the rest of his life remains with a serious psychological trauma and lags behind in development.

"Minhun", or posthumous marriage

In China, in the west, and to this day practice the most terrible customs and rituals that defy logic and common sense. One of them is this: a man or a woman who has never been in a legal marriage for the rest of his life should be buried in a pair with a dead person of the opposite sex. Horror! The Chinese believe that by performing such a ritual, they will provide the deceased a happy life with a "neighbor on the grave." Parents of the "dead bride" must pay $ 1200 (bride price). This custom leads to terrible consequences. The trade of 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 a corpse of a girl that no one had picked up from the morgue. She explained this by saying that her deceased brother comes to her in a dream and demands to immediately deliver him a "future wife". Agree, just a nightmare! Worse still, if for some reason the bride or groom died on the eve of the wedding ceremony, the wedding ceremony still had to be held. Thus, the living groom had to marry the "dead bride". Scary!

Dead at the beating of vultures: rite or bloodthirsty cruelty?

Another cruel tradition, part of the "most terrible rituals" section, comes from Tibet. Although he was practicing for quite a long time in the USA (Delaware State). The Buddha's receivers have always believed that after the death the soul leaves, and the human body does not mean anything, it is like a desolate dry tree, which must be removed from the world. To do this, the "well-wishers" came up with the idea to give "corpse" to the vultures (not to lose the same good). They dismembered the body into small pieces and gave the birds to be eaten.

But that is not all. After the bones are left of the body, they grind them and make flour from the flour that goes to eat smaller birds.

The terrible rites of different tribes are also concluded: 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 guessed what they do next with their children (for those who do not understand it they eat it).

"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 involved in this "fear". The Indian tribe called aghori, to get rid of fear of their own death, eat dead people who can not be cremated (saints, pregnant women, children, unmarried women who died from an insect bite or leprous). They believe that "going to another world" is an obstacle to spiritual enlightenment. Before eating dead people, the deceased is carefully soaked in river water and then eaten.

"Scary Legs"

The most terrible rituals, as is known, are committed in China. Fortunately, many of them are not practiced in the modern world. One of these is "lotus feet." The thing is that in ancient China the beauty was considered to be the one whose feet looked like a lotus. To do this, girls at the age of 4 were tightly bandaged with bandages, which left them with unforgettable torment. So they went up to 10 years. After this, the girls were taught a seeding and swaying gait (2-3 years). And then they were ready to marry. The most interesting thing is that the girls were proud of their legs, despite the painful pains.

"Walking corpses"

As it has been known for a long time, terrible rituals related to black magic are practiced in Indonesia. One of them actually stirs consciousness. The ritual is held in a city called Toraja. No matter how strange it may sound, the corpses go to their graves. And it happens because the cemetery there is quite far away, so the locals ask for help from the black sorcerers, who temporarily revitalize the deceased, and he himself follows to the place of his burial. The only condition is that no one should touch the "living corpse", otherwise it will fall and will not rise again.

Unnecessary old people

This tradition, according to the author, is simply the height of cruelty and marasmus. And it consists that those who, to put it mildly, are fed up with the old people, and care of them is a burden to them, they kill them. What do they do with those whose lives soon come to an end? When a person reaches the peak of helplessness, the locals simply take him to the ocean and have him on an iceberg, where the poor man either freezes or dies of hunger. Some, in order not to suffer, themselves jump into the icy water. This is the attitude of the Eskimos to the elderly.

Mitten of poisonous ants

The most terrible rituals of the world are held in South Africa. One of them is the boy's dedication to men. For this, the kid should put 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 a blackening of the hand or temporary paralysis. The worst thing is that after such an initiation, the majority dies of a painful shock. If a man has expressed a desire to become a real warrior, he must undergo a procedure 20 times or more. It is easy to guess that up to 20 times hardly anyone will live.

The devotion of his wife

Fortunately, this ritual was banned as early as the 1920s. The thing is that in India, the body of the deceased is usually burned. The most terrible thing is that his wife had to follow him. "In what sense?" You ask. The woman had to put on the most beautiful outfit, bypass the burning husband 7 times and join him. Yes, yes, burn with him alive, to continue living together in the next world. Like this! It is interesting, but if the wife was dying, would the husband follow her?

Human stupidity and cruelty do not recognize any boundaries, this is proved by some religious rituals and customs, which allegedly glorify God and teach children the mind. In most cases, they are invented by mentally unbalanced people or by the most real deceivers.