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10 Bizarre Traditions From Around The World

Every religion and culture has what outsiders consider odd traditions or rites of passage, but which seem perfectly acceptable to true believers. Eevery religion has ceremonies and practices that mark life’s milestones: birth, marriage, the transition to adulthood, and death, many of which may sound unusual to non-practitioners. Sometime people practice some rituals which are adopted as a part of religion, sometime they practice cultural traditions which seems bizarre to others. There are a lot of traditions that seems really bizarre to the world where it is not followed. Here is a list: 10 bizarre traditions that are still observed around the word.

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Mourning of Muharram

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Baby Throwing

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Finger Cutting of Dani Tribe

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Famadihana Dancing With the Dead

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Bathroom Ban of Tidong

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Tooth Filing

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Burial Ritual Yanomami

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