From cutting off fingertips to living with the dead, humankind has come up with some incredibly strange cultural practices.

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Some are proscribed , some are cringe - inducing , some are downright revolting , and all are extraordinarily off-the-wall .

From the weirdest things we put in our bodies to the weird things we lop off our bodies to the unearthly things we do with our deadened body , here are seven of the strange ethnic practices from around the world that are still sway out today :

Toraja Corpses Dressed Up

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Cutting Off Fingers

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The death of a menage member in the Dani tribe of Indonesia heralds a vast amount of emotional and , for women , strong-arm nuisance . Aside from the inevitable emotional grief , women of the Dani tribe physically express that grief by cutting off ( by irresistible impulse ) a section of one of their fingers .

Before being amputated , the finger are splice with a string for thirty minutes to blunt them . Once amputated , the unexampled fingertip are incinerate to create new scar tissue paper .

Bizarre Cultural Practices Finger Cutting

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This impost , one of the human beings ’s most bizarre ethnic practice , is perform as a way to satisfy transmissible ghosts , and is rarely , but still periodically , practiced in the kinship group .

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Cultural Practices Dani Tribe Tradition

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