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What Happens
he Sateré-Mawé people of Brazil use intentional bullet ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become warriors. The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural sedative, and then 80 of them are woven into gloves made of leaves (which resembles a large oven mitt), stingers facing inward. -
Ritual Actions
Boys as young as 12 years old must gather bullet ants from the forest, which are then used to make ant-ridden gloves. The young men wear the gloves 20 times for 10 minutes, performing a dance while those angry insects sting them. This rituals is used in order to define weather you are a man or not -
Believes
This Ritual is believed to recognize whether your ready to be a man if you can stand the pain through the whole time without taking the glove off