Skull Binding (Mayan)
The old Mayan and their traditions and values have always attracted the world. But this weird and bizarre tradition of skull binding is the most shocking tradition. The deformation was done by distorting the normal growth of the skull of a child as small as a month old for six months. The tradition was performed to demonstrate social status. The people with deformed elongated head were believed to be more intelligent, of higher status and closer to the spirits.
Great article Payal. I have linked to your list on my site. Quite a shocking list indeed!
Thanks so much for appreciating J J. Your comment meant a lot 🙂
I heard about one of the shocking tradition from a friend, I was taken aback… So thought of researching about it and came across so many weird and shocking tradition all over the World.
I wonder if 50-100+ years from now people will find out traditions strange.
Hahaha!
These are indeed weird traditions. The pen*s festival is indeed funny!
Thanks for reading the post Emmanuel. Agreed that was the most funny tradition I cam across, all others traditions around the world listed in the post are weird and scary.
Awesome work… i too have much stuff similar to this…. i love to collect info/stuff like this… basically i am film maker and explorer of hidden stuff in the world… thanks a lot for adding few more things into my list…. hope i get more info like this from you
Thanks a lot Raraj 🙂
I am really touched by your words.
I too love exploring rare, oddities, surprising and shocking things around the world. You can have a look at Interesting Facts and Rare/oddities categories of the site to get more such posts.
Regards
Payal