5 Strange rituals around the world

5 Strange rituals around the world
But then again, its oddity pales next to courting rituals common in other parts of the globe. ... #1 In rural Austria, it's not chocolate bon-bons that are the way to a lover's heart; it's apples soaked in armpit sweat. Young women do a ritual dance with apple slices lodged in their ..A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a ... 5 Ritual and religion .... The performance of ritual creates a theatrical-like frame around the activities, symbols ... of the world, simplifying the chaos of life and imposing a more or less coherent system of categories of meaning onto it