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RichDad1: I strongly doubt this. Can you name the tribe?

. Its quite extinct now. But in those days in some part of ibo land its seen as a sign of feminine strength

2cato: Since they are the coustoms and traditions of the people tthe their is nothing wrong and disgustting about it.

. Can I disagree with u?

Nice one. But sadly many of them are extinct. Also checkout: https://www.nairaland.com/1868316/10-strange-birth-customs-around#25671390

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Randy100: Eating of placenta is weird

Na india na, wetin u expect lol.

Is there anyone am missing? Feel free to chip in.

9) Chinese Pregnancy Restrictions:

Apparently, China has a great many odd birth customs.
When a Chinese couple marry and enter their home for
the first time, the husband is supposed to carry the
bride over the threshold, just like the international
custom—but he also carries her over burning coals to
ensure that she can give birth without any problems.
Then when the wife does get pregnant, she traditionally
faces a host of unusual and surprising bans.
She must not gossip. She must not laugh too loudly.
She mustn’t get angry or even think bad thoughts. She
mustn’t look at colors that clash, and she should only
eat light-colored food (to create a light-colored baby, of
course). She must never sit on a crooked mat, else the
child may be born deformed.
She must sleep with a knife under her bed, so the sharp
object will deter bad spirits. The house must not
undergo any construction during the pregnancy—and
the mother can have absolutely no sex.


10) Lithuanian Baby Racing

Most of our infants spend their time chilling and getting
spoiled by their parents, but some Lithuanian babies
have things a little different. Every year, the country
organizes a race to find the fastest crawler in the
country.
The event is often marked by hilarious moments when
the babies have absolutely no idea what to do and crash
midway—because they’re babies. Parents nudge them
on by holding toys or other shiny objects.
The race is even supported by sponsors and generally
attracts huge crowds every year. It’s scheduled annually
for June 1, which just happens to be International Child
Protection Day.

7) ISOLATED PAKISTANI MOTHERS:

Kalash mothers in Pakistan also traditionally give birth
away from their families but for a different reason: The
culture considers mothers in labor to be unclean.
Mothers therefore deliver their children in a special
isolated building called the Bashleni.
The system lets men stay far away from the disgusting
fluids and the general air of childbirth, for fear of
polluting themselves. Even other women who will
probably go through the same thing in the future, or
have in the past, don’t want be around. The only people
who can enter the house to assist the mother are
women who are menstruating because they, too, are
seen as unclean


Balinese Babies Can’t Touch The Ground:


Various strange ceremonies surround Balinese birth.
Take the setra ari ari, for instance. The Balinese believe
that the placenta, or ari ari, has a spirit of its own that
acts as the child’s guardian angel. Parents therefore
bury the placenta ritually in a special cemetery.
But perhaps the weirdest custom is that babies aren’t
allowed to touch the ground until they reach three
months of age. The newborn is considered pure, and
any contact with the floor within those three months will
defile it. But at the three-month mark, the family holds a
formal ceremony, in which the baby walks the unclean
ground for the first time.

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6) UNASSISTED NIGERIAN BIRTHS:

In parts of Nigeria, pregnant women are supposed to
give birth alone. Midwives and other support come in
after the delivery, but the woman is expected to go
through the process itself without any help.
This custom has more to do with poverty and women’s
low social standing than with independence. In a lot of
cases, the families simply don’t support asking for
outside help, no matter how much the mother needs it.
Some organizations are responding to the trend by
entering rural areas and offering help. Unaided, mothers
who give birth often suffer miscarriages or other
complications.

5) DIPPING BABIES IN ICED WATER:

What do you do to keep your baby free of heat strokes
and rashes? If you answered “douse them in icy water,”
there’s a good chance you’re Mayan.
In hot countries like Guatemala, Mayan mothers think
ice baths are the best way to fight the heat. The babies
generally scream during their whole time in the bath,
but the mothers don’t mind. They claim the baby goes
to sleep right after. And whether or not that’s true,
witnesses say that the ice bath really does cure heat
rash.

3) SPITTING ON THE BABY:

The Wolof people of Mauritania and surrounding
countries believe that human saliva can retain words, so
they spit on newborns to add blessings that stick. When
a baby is born, women spit on its face, men spit in its
ear, and then, for good measure, they rub saliva all over
its head.
The Igbo tribe in Nigeria goes a step further. When a
baby is born, it goes to the family’s ancestral house.
There, a relative who is a good orator chews some
alligator pepper, spits it on a finger, and puts it in the
baby’s mouth. This supposedly makes the child grow up
to be just as good an orator as the donor of the spit.


4) WEDDING CAKE ON BABYS FORE-HEAD: Some couples save a bit of their wedding cake for an
anniversary, but Irish couples traditionally hold on to
theirs for another occasion: the first child’s christening.
The parents serve the top tier of the cake to guests and
sprinkle a few crumbs on the child’s forehead to bless it
with good luck.
A proper Irish wedding cake generally has a fair bit of
whiskey. But since a few crumbs of whiskey cake is
hardly enough alcohol for an Irish child, couples often
save some champagne from the wedding along with the
cake. They open it at the baptism and use it to wet the
happy baby’s head.

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1) EATING OF PLACENTA:


The placenta sends the fetus nutrition, but some
mothers consider it to be nutrition itself. Through
maternal placentophagy, the mother eats her own
placenta after birth to absorb hormones and other
nutrients.
The practice is very common among animals that may
have no other food handy right after labor. It turns out
that some humans swear by it, too. Traditional medicine
in China, Jamaica, and parts of India recommend it for
various mystical reasons. Modern practitioners claim that
hormone

2) SUCKING OF SEX ORGANS: The Manchu, an ethnic minority in China, have a weird
way of showing their love for their newborns. Their
public displays of affection extend even to the child’s
genitals. Girls receive joyous genital tickling, while the
boys receive full-on MouthAction from their mothers. Similar
practices go on in some other cultures, among some
people in Thailand, Japan, and India.
The act isn’t intended as sexual at all. Interestingly, the
Manchu do consider kisses to always be sexual, even
when given to a family member or child, so Manchu
parents will never kiss their child’s face.

dammyjay93: Lol I actually yawned

Hahaha actually 65 per cent of readers would yawn

#YAWNS#

ladyfeli: I will comment wen I c all of dm

Oya o ladyfelli the post dun complete, what do you think.

Thanks op.

Still thinking about no 10, pals ur suggestions and comments are welcome.

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9) Left And Right Have Been Confusing
Philosophers For Years

How would you explain the concept of left and right to
someone who had no idea what those words meant?
Would you explain it in terms of your relative position to
a well-known stationary landmark? Or maybe you’d
think outside the box and refer to the rotation of the
Earth or something comparably massive and
unchanging. But what if you were talking to an alien
whose planet rotated differently to our own, or one who
didn’t have eyes? It’s a question that has been
intriguing philosophers for years because, without an
agreed upon point of reference, it’s incredibly difficult to
define what left and right actually are.
For exam

8] We Enjoy Things For Reasons Other Than
Enjoyment:


Enjoyment is a weird thing because it’s so subjective—
for every person who loves a given food, song, or movie,
there’s another person who adamantly hates it. You’d
think that the reason we enjoy things is because it feels
good in some way, but scientists have conclusively
proven that that’s only half the story.
For example, people can be fooled into thinking they
love a certain food or wine just by telling them it’s really
expensive. The same can be said for objects—people will
instinctively choose an expensive product over a
cheaper one purely because of the price. Enjoyment is
barely even a factor. In marketing, this is known as the
“Chivas Regal effect,” named for the scotch of the same
name which saw sales explode after they simply raised
the price of their product.

7) Some Mosquitoes Bite People Because Of
Their Clothes


If you’ve ever been bitten by a mosquito, chances are
someone nearby has given you a recycled explanation
for why the insect decided to ruin your day. Maybe they
said that you smelled good, or that you had a particular
blood type, or maybe they just told you that your shirt
makes you look like a victim. We’re not being facetious
with that list, by the way—they’re all things that
scientists believe can cause mosquitoes to find you more
attractive.
As a recent Smithsonian article details, 20 percent of
people seem to be strangely attractive to mosquitoes,
and no one is really in agreement as to why. The simple
answer would appear to be that it’s something in a
person’s blood that attracts mosquitoes. However, it
would appear that the mosquitoes are actually attracted
by a chemical signal given off by the body. It’s present
in around 85 percent of us—which also explains why
some people seem invisible to mosquitoes—and it
indicates what your blood type is.
Another, stranger theory is that mosquitoes are naturally
attracted to darker, more vivid colors. In other words, it’s
actually been theorized—and in some cases shown—that
mosquitoes will bite people because they like their shirt.

6) WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY KNOW HOW BICYCLES WORK:


Bicycles have existed for over 100 years, and since they
were invented we’ve mastered land, sea, and air travel
while making impressive headway into space. We have
planes that can traverse the globe in a matter of hours,
so you’d think that by now we’d have the humble
bicycle just about figured out. But oddly, that’s not the
case.
As mentioned in this article, scientists have been
arguing about how exactly they work, or more
specifically, how they stay upright, almost since they
were first invented. For a long time, the major theory
was that the gyroscopic force of the wheels spinning
kept bikes upright, but when scientists built a special
bicycle with contraptions attached to it designed to
counteract any gyroscopic forces produced by the
wheels, it stayed upright and no one could explain how.

Sabadon: Dat yawning part tho....i personaly av made research abt it.....hmmm only God knws d mystery behind it....cos i even yawned while typing dis n i knw somebdy wud yawn y reading dis

I almost yawned o

5) Defining The Word ‘The’ Is Really Difficult:

The word “the” is one of the most commons words in
the English language. It’s so ubiquitous that most of us
have probably never stopped to think about how
strange of a word it actually is.
As discussed here, it’s easily one of the most difficult
words to explain to a non-native English speaker
because it has such a massive range of applications,
some of which are remarkably odd when looked at
objectively. To quote:
“Why do we say, ‘I love the ballet,’ but not ‘I love the
cable TV?’ Why do we say, ‘I have the flu,’ but not ‘I
have the headache?’ Why do we say, ‘winter is the
coldest season,’ and not ‘winter is coldest season?’ ”
Think about it—we use the word “the” in dozens of
different situations and in reference to many different
concepts, ideas, and objects interchangeably. We can
use the word to refer to everything from a specific item
to an abstract metaphorical concept, and native
speakers can instinctively tell when it’s being used
incorrectly without thinking about it.

4) How Long Is A Piece Of String? It’s
Impossible To Know



If someone was to give you a piece of string and ask you
how long it was, you’d assume that answering them
would be a fairly simple, if rather odd task. But how
would you answer that person if they wanted to know
exactly how long that piece of string was? That was
something comedian Alan Davies wanted to ascertain for
a BBC TV special aptly called How Long is a Piece of
String? by posing the deceptively simple question to a
group of scientists.
The answer was, rather ironically, “it depends,” because
the exact definition of how long something is depends
on who you ask. Mathematicians told the comedian that
a piece of string could theoretically be of infinite length,
while physicists told him that due to the nature of
subatomic physics and the fact that atoms can
technically be in two places at once, measuring the
string precisely is impossible.
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3) The Definition Of ‘Almost Surely’ Is A
Mathematical Nightmare:


In more basic language, that essentially means that
even when an event has a 100 percent chance of
occurring, it won’t necessarily occur. For example, if you
flipped a coin a million times, statistically, the odds of
the coin landing on heads at least once is essentially
one. However, there is an infinitesimally small chance
that the coin could land on tails every single time. So
although the odds of the event happening are for all
intents and purposes guaranteed, it is impossible to say
that.

2) THE PROOF FOR '1+1=2' is 300 PAGES LONG: The equation 1+1=2 is probably the very first bit of
math that most of us learned, because addition and
subtraction are probably the simplest concepts in
mathematics. If you have one apple and somebody
gives you another, you have two apples. By the same
logic, if you have two apples and someone takes one
away, you only have one apple. It’s a universal fact of
life that transcends barriers like language or race. Which
is what makes the following sentence so unbelievable:
The proof for 1+1=2 is well over 300 pages long and it
wasn’t conclusively proven until the 20th century.

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