2. CONTENTS
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El Colacho or The Baby
Jumping Festival, Spain
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Living with the dead,
Indonesia
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Neck Ring Culture, Asia and
Africa
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Lip-Plating or Lip-Discing,
Ethiopia
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Female Genital Mutilation,
Africa
3. EL COLACHO
This tradition in Castrillo de Murcia, in the north of Spain, has
its origins in pagan rituals and has been a local tradition since
the 17th century. As a way to cleanse a new baby’s soul, the
tradition is commonly known as ‘baby jumping’. Every year, on
the Sunday after the Feast of Corpus Christi, the event, which is
now a mix of both pagan and Catholic traditions, begins with a
procession through town and at the end of the walk, babies born
in the previous year are laid on a mat. Men dressed as the devil
run between and jump over the babies. Next, the leaders of the
Catholic Church in the Burgos Region cleanse them with holy
water.
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4. LIVING WITH THE DEAD
Rather than burying their loved ones and leaving them
there, in Indonesia, the Toraja people exhume the corpses
of their fellow villagers. The corpse is dressed in special
garments and parade around the village while special care
is taken to clean the body, the corpse’s garments, and
coffin. If someone’s death took place outside the village,
the corpse will be taken to the spot of death before being
walked back to the village as an act of returning home.
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5. FEMALE GENITAL
MUTILATION
Across Africa, and in various Asian and Middle
Eastern countries, female genital mutilation (FGM)
is the tradition of removing the female genitals
either entirely or in part. Most often practiced on
young children, it is a horrific procedure that is
illegal in numerous countries around the world.
That it continues to be so widespread shows the
difficulty of breaking such an ingrained cultural
tradition
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6. NECK RING CULTURE
Among some African and Asian tribes, Neck Ring
Culture is very famous in which stiff neck jewelry
(brass coils) is worn around the neck that makes the
neck look elongated. Brass coils are ringed around
the neck in the last two years of a baby girl among
the Padaung women of Kayan people, Myanmar. They
consider the long necks as an impression of beauty
among them. The South Ndebele peoples of Africa
also wear neck rings to show off their wealth and
status.
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7. If you look at the Mursi women of Ethiopia, you will notice
a very weird thing. They insert clay plates into the lips of
Mursi women to cause the lips to stretch. Besides the Mursi
people, this very weird culture is practiced among
the Chai and Tirma people too. When a girl of Mursi tribe
reaches the age of 15 or 16, her lower lip is cut and when
after 3 or 4 months the cut is healed, they insert lip-plate
(dhebi a tugoin) into the lips. Researchers say that these
certain disfigurations are done to show female strength and
self-esteem.
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LIP-PLATING OR LIP-DISCING
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