Discovering the seven strange customs of the world

For women in the Dani tribe in India, the death of family members means not only mental pain but also physical suffering.

When their loved ones die, Dani's woman will be forced to drop her finger.

The ritual was to worship the ancestors; although rare, the tribe still retained the practice.

Before cutting off their fingers, that finger will be paralysed by a rope for half an hour.

When their tails are cut, they burn their mouths to form a scar tissue.

The suffering of Shia Muslims, especially on Ashura Day, is well known.

Ashura is one of the most important festivals of Muslims, and for the Shia, it is mainly a commemoration of the memory of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Mohammed, who died in the Battle of Karbala in the seventeenth century.

Hussein and his companions have repeatedly struck the head with a dagger, splattering blood on the Muslim street.

The dagger's head was a ritual of pardon, and Muslims today will bleed themselves to honour Hussein's memory at Ashura.

The Eskimo people would put dying or dying old people on the ice and let them go.

The Eskimos believe in the next life, and they feel that this approach can ensure, on the one hand, that the elderly do not become a burden on the living and, on the other hand, that they can preserve their last dignity and grace.

The Yanomamo tribe lives in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil and south Venezuela.

In that tribe, when people die, they wrap their bodies with leaves to be eaten by insects; after 30 to 45 days, bones are collected and burned.

Then the ashes burned into the banana soup.

One year later, tribals mixed the ashes with banana soup and ate them.

It was said that such an approach could help the dead find a way to heaven.

The Ainu, who live in Japan and parts of Russia, have the custom of sacrificing bears.

The people believe in everything, and they believe that bears are gods living in man's life, and that their sacrifice can protect them.

The Ainu would kill the mother of the bear in the cave and then take the bear and feed her with human milk.

Two years later, kill him.

Then drink his blood, and eat bears.

Finally, the bear's skull was placed on the top of the spear, covered with bear skin, and worshiped.

There are places in China where a husband needs to cross a firebasket before he leads his wife into the door, which is said to ensure that his wife is able to give birth and live in a red fire.

Cross-fire basins can also prevent disasters and avoid evil.

There is a strange custom among certain ethnic groups of the Indian Toraga who live with the dead for months before burying their dead loved ones.

Before the body could be cremated, they would wear special clothing and place it in a room in the house.

Hererather, it is not about faith, but about money; in the past, as funerals are expensive and usually take some time to raise money, the practice has gradually developed.

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