Strange customs and habits of the American Amazon cat tribe

Along the Jakrana River in the Amazon jungle of South America, there is a very mysterious "cat-man tribe" with a total of about 2200 people. Cat people have cat mustaches on their faces and behave like cats. What is even more astonishing is that every man must purify his body with poison. The catman is an excellent hunter and is good at using bows and arrows. Their arrow shafts are made of sorghum stalks decorated with cotton thread and a kind of golden grass. Cat people mainly hunt spider monkeys, white-lipped wild boar, tapirs, fluffy monkeys and armadillos. During the dry season, they also collect river turtle eggs.

There is a seemingly shocking ceremony in his tribe: a purification ceremony with poisonous frogs, and each ceremony is carried out at night.

First of all, I made a fire, and a piece of firewood was burning on the fire. The firewood was like the charcoal fire we talked about. When it was burned red, the wizard put the charcoal fire on my guide's arm and stabbed his skin. This was a bit like torture. When the skin touched the red charcoal fire, a hole was burned. At this time, the wizard applied the toxin he had just removed from the tree frog on the boiled skin, and all the toxicity reached the human body. After these toxins entered the body, they would empty out everything in his body, such as vomiting, dizziness, and empty out everything in his body. If you have any symptoms in your body at this time, or get sick, headache or stomach pain, it is all because of some bacteria in it, this cleansing ritual is to empty out your bacteria, and your body will return to its original state the next day. It is equivalent to the rebirth of the body. The liquid frog poison they used came from a green tree frog and was collected by rubbing the skin of a tree frog with a wooden stick.

Before going out hunting, cat people, both men and women, use frog poison to burn their skin, allowing themselves to have a clear mind and sharp vision and enhance strength. The effect can last for several days.