Foot Binding (China)
In a bizarre tradition in China, the foot of a young girl of 4-5 years is binded to prevent the growing of the foot. The girl with binded foot cannot walk, run, work or jump. The tradition is not for any omen, religious value or to stay away from evils. This tradition is a sign of beauty and sensuality, it was believed that small foot makes a girl look more beautiful.
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