Sateré-Mawé people's painful Initiation Ritual to become a man
Satere-Mawe tribe of the Amazonian people of Brazil. In satere-Mawe tribe when a young boy becomes sexually mature he must go through the most painful initiation ritual to become a man and a warrior. The young boy goes out into the jungle with the Medicine man and other boys of his age to find and gather bullet ants. The insect with the most painful sting in the world.
The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural sedative and then hundreds of them are woven into a glove made out of leaves , stinger facing inward. When the ants regain consciousness, the boy slips the glove onto his hand.
When the ants wake up they find themselves trapped and become very angry and aggressive.The goal of this initiation rite is to keep the glove on for a full ten minutes. When finished, the boy's hand and part of his arm are temporarily paralyzed due to the ant venom, and he may shake uncontrollably for days. The only "protection" provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging. To fully complete the initiation, however, the boys must go through the ordeal a total of 20 times over the course of several years before they can prove they are men.
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