10 Weird Rituals From Around The World Still In Practice (2017)

#9 Bullet Ants Ritual (Brazil)

The Sateré-Mawé people use bullet ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become a warrior.  A boy must wear a pair of gloves filled with bullet ants for more than 10 minutes. He must go through this ordeal a total of 20 times over the course of several years to prove that he is deserving to be a man.