Unusual traditions that still exist 19 Articles

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by Steve Healey

Happy John Frum Day. February 15 is approaching and that is the day this odd little holiday is celebrated. Who and where in the world is John Frum? Those are the questions that have been asked for the past 60 plus years on...read more

by Thokozile Gurganious

In Botswana, there is a tradition among the Tswana people that on New Year's Day, lovers must have sex at midnight. Most of the time , this is only possible if the parties are in the privacy of their home. The result of th...read more

by Virginia Gaces

The Bethrotal System of The Kalinga Native in Northern Philippines The betrothal practice in Kalinga, specifically Taloctoc, is done by having a "contract" between parents for the marriage of their children. The practic...read more

by ech03

There is unusual tradition in my culture that still keeps until today. Even though technology and education has been lifted up people to modern culture, we still keep the tradition because we proud to has it. Our cultur...read more

by Gill Hamper

Wassailing is an ancient English custom, dating back to at least 1545. The word Wassail, is a variation of the Saxon expression Waes Hal', which means good health. In years gone by wassailing was also known as howling....read more

by Altha Faye Fugett

Freedom Day Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, he...read more

by MamaShan

Cultural Traditions All around the world we are flooded with differences. The way we eat, hunt, talk, pray, dance, sing; live. We can turn on the National Geographic Channel and see cultures that still don't wear the mo...read more

by ellemorena

Remembering the dead. Most cultures and religion has some practices commemorating the dead. The Chinese believes that when you die, you have left this world and have gone to another. Nevertheless, even-though they are no l...read more

by Dave Franklin

Burning the Bishops - The Lewes Fire Festival The title of the review may seem like a naughty euphemism for something that I cant discuss in print on a site as proper and clean cut as Helium, but I assure you it is not....read more

by Cait E

Female genital mutiliation is defined as the partial or total removal of the external female genitals. Though it is often known as female circumcision the similarities that come along with the Western idea of circumcision...read more

by Josh Franco

Bugs, Cognition & Mexican Masks The trajectories of thought are often an impenetrable mystery, even to their thinkers. One experiences an intense unhinging of body and mindor perhaps more accurately, of thought and meta...read more

by Yunana A. Kure

Marriage: Some traditions still believe in stealing a female lady up to marriage for wife.They will arrange with the lady concerned how she will sneak from her Father`s house. It is done in such a way that the Father will ...read more

by Jonnie Chastain

UNUSUAL WEDDING TRADITIONS The wealth of information on the subject of wedding traditions is overwhelming. There are often many similarities. The differences can be colorful and are always interesting. Some of the fo...read more

by Nora K Anthony

From bizarre rituals to bizarre religious practices and all within the confines of Christianity come the yearly erecting and decorating of the wooden cave duplication of the tomb of Jesus. Greek Orthodox Ch...read more

by Keith Hillman

On November the Fifth I spent the evening at Lewes Bonfire night. When I returned home I smelt of smoke and my ears were ringing from the explosions of firecrackers. My mind was still whirling with the images and sounds of...read more

by Jobie Weetaluktuk

Arrange marriages Actually arranged marriages may not be all that unusual. Arrange marriage are still quiet common in India, Asia, and Africa. Once upon a time, this was the norm for many societies. Now in the west, th...read more

by The Owl

Southern Germany and Austria: In former times, the people living in the countryside were farmers. People were poor and also had no wrist watch. The only watch they had was at home in the kitchen or the church clock. W...read more

by Annelisette Sargent

And so it was a very cold winter morning in Egegik, Alaska. We had barely finished our toast and coffee when we saw a blue thing drop from the sky onto our front yard. In consternation we all jumped from the breakfast ta...read more

by bader

How Communication affects our daily life system . Communication is a basic human activity .it usually disappeared our way of life would crumble. communication has made the world "smaller".How ?,in ...read more