Burial’ in the AmazonThe Yanomami tribe doesn’t believe in digging holes for their dead – or in wasting anything. When a Yanomami dies, their body is burned and the ashes & bone fragments are grinded into powder. Then the family members eat the remains.
Bouncing babies in India
In Solapur, a yearly non-religious festival is held in which babies are thrown from a 15-meter tower. They don’t really bounce – waiting catchers hold a sheet below for the babies to land in. Nobody really knows how this tradition came about, but luckily they haven’t lost one yet.
Zimbabwe
A weird custom here is the so-called Virginity testing. This practice, in which a young girl’s mother, aunt, neighbor, or even prospective husband inserts a finger into her vagina to verify her virginity, may take place in ceremonies sanctioned by rural chiefs, as well as in churches and the home in Zimbabwe.
Mongolia
To beat horses, dogs and animals; it is equal to beating a close friend.
To look suspiciously at ones mother, father, grandparents, and familiar or unfamiliar elderly people. The offending person would be treated as a person disregarding the law and considered worse than an animal.

Madagascar
When two people are in love and are ready to move onto marriage, they must first engaged. Engagement is done with a big celebration and in front of relatives from both sides and friends. During the celebration, close relatives from both sides are invited, the groom to be brings a gift for the future bride’s parent as an honor and thanks for raising a beautiful daughter, and the engagement ring for the bride to be.
Mozambique

When a woman’s husband died, she is force to marry his brother in-law or any male relatives of her husband because she is considered a property of the family.

Cameroon
Dowry for virgin girls amounts to 30 thousand Cameroonian franks. If the girl tells the proposing man that she is not virgin, then he will usually pay no money and the dowry is reduced to some cheap clothes.