ITT ancient traditions that are still being practiced today
>>Baby jumping (El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish holiday dating back to 1620 that takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Burgos.[1][2] During the act, known as El Salto del Colacho (the devil's jump) or simply El Colacho, men dressed as the Devil (known as the Colacho) in red and yellow jump suits jump over babies born during the previous twelve months of the year who lie on mattresses in the street. The "devils" hold whips and oversized castanets as they jump bravely over the unaware infants.
>> The origins of the tradition are unknown but it is said to cleanse the babies of original sin, ensure them safe passage through life and guard against illness and evil spirits.[4][5][6] In recent years, Pope Benedict has asked Spanish priests to distance themselves from El Colacho, and to downplay the tradition’s connection with Catholicism. The Church still teaches that it is baptism by water, not a giant leap by an airborne devil, which cleanses the soul of original sin.[7]
Has anyone ever fucked up and hurt one or more of the babies?
Matthew Gray
cumskin """"culture""""" everyone
Brandon Kelly
>Spaniards >cumskins Nobody cares, anyway, but at least try to get your make-belief slur RIGHT.
Tyler Roberts
>Spain >White
Hunter Wright
the Irish still get drunk and wail on each other in the street and it's completely normal.
Angel Rivera
>making fun of their proud moorish heirtage rude
Also, to add to the thread there is still the old Mesoamerican tradition of Dance of the Flyers in Mexico, where they dress up as giant birds and swing around the top of a 100ft pole.
Thomas Clark
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Grayson Cox
In turkey if someone is going on a long trip other people will poor water on the ground after them. Its something along the lines of go as smooth as water.
Jaxon Williams
fuck off we are moors
Juan Thompson
>1620 >ancient
Isaiah Rogers
The cutest picture I've ever seen.
Lucas Rodriguez
Spain has the best traditions desu.
Cameron Diaz
yeah
Xavier Young
Nope, more genetically similar to italians and pollacks.
Jaxon Brown
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Dylan Sullivan
A CUTE
Camden Lopez
>this confuses your average murricano
Sebastian Clark
My Little Penitent Can't be This Cute.
Oliver Brown
In Poland, they keep a carp in the tub for Christmas Dinner.
The Carp supposedly can talk, and tells the father where he has placed presents for the children
I gots yous an ancient terdition for ya. Muddin'. Tat's right, muddin'. My daddy's daddy, Ol' Papa Jim, been muddin' since before muddin' was a thing daddies did.
John Harris
do american tourists ever get confused and think these guys are KKK?
Nolan Gray
>1620 >ancient
what
Matthew Robinson
That's actually really neat
Nicholas Howard
>smacks the shit out of the carp before cutting it open I don't speak polish why does he do this?
William Sullivan
There are too many white people in this picture
Jonathan Torres
That's how you kill a fish. You don't want to cut open a fish alive.
Isaac Price
Man that looks super cult-ish
Levi Russell
The time honored christian tradition of walking on fire to show your purity. Praise Jesus.
Dylan Hernandez
Are all Spanish Catholics this qt?
Chase Diaz
Thats from Bulgaria. I think the places that had Bogomil cults all have fire walking and wearing masks to chase away devils.
Specifically mentioned in the 17th century but components of it go back to the early 16th and possibly further. The horns themselves have been tested and are from the 11th century.
Nathaniel Morris
And of course Morris dancing also goes back to the 15th century.
Dylan Ortiz
Spain is a chocko country
Jackson Phillips
I suppose circumcision of prepubescents.
Basically, we here in Insular SEA have a lot of dick modification practices. But circumcision is special because it marks entry to manhood ever since pre-colonial times.
Nowadays we still do it, but the fact that anesthesia and medical expertise is involved kinda lessens the trial-by-ordeal nature of the whole tradition.
Still, it colors our language. In the Philippines, "supot" (lit. Bagged) refers to someone who retains his foreskin. i.e. a coward who ran away from his circumision. Nowadays its slang for failure and inadequacy.
Totally unrelated to Jewish/Islamic practices, which is barbaric shit done to babies while our circumcision traditions are by the kid's consent. Of course, social pressure would make it seem forced.
pic related is how the ancient Maya used to practice it.
Caleb Cooper
>punching people with seashells
Christopher Ramirez
>Morris dancing
>Morris dancing is the most fatuous entertainment ever devised by man. >Waving a cloth they've wiped their noses on! How it's still going on, I'll never know.
Nicholas Ramirez
So were the original KKK pr*ddies trying to false flag as catholics?
Brody Gonzalez
IF THIS NIGGA SLAPPED YOUR GIRLS ASS WHAT WOULD YOU DO
Grayson Wood
No, they were papist democrats. Read some fucking history books.
Michael Brown
>they were papist Lol
Joshua Rodriguez
Spain has the weirdest traditions
Isaiah James
Edmund needed to go and watch the border morris. Fucking terrifying.
Michael Lewis
Can confirm. I already killed and prepared my carp for the feast. Feels good man.
Julian Ramirez
>What is controlled opposition, the dipshit.
Matthew Butler
mesoamerican ball game
Tyler Carter
The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake in the Uk. People literally chase a wheel of cheese down a steep hill every year as a tradition. Unsurprisingly, a few people each year get injured.
Brandon Jones
>Ancient threads which are repited almost post to post.
Jace Cox
>The Carp supposedly can talk, and tells the father where he has placed presents for the children then they eat it, what does this teach the children
all very ancient and culturally important activities
Jordan Jackson
The carp sacrifices himself to sustain the family, just like Jesus.
Is very good Christian lesson, teaches children about Jesus and Mary.
Jace Richardson
Only Muslims could do this to doggos.
These must be secret Ottoman sleeper cells
Lucas Jones
Snitchers turns to dishes
Mason Lee
I thought Spaniards were white. That dude looks straight up Mexican.
Asher Howard
>Mexican >nationality composed of metzios, catzios, etc, >that dude looks straight up Mexican
Kys
Hunter Phillips
I don't have any pictures, but I am a Native American living in the Oklahoma area. My family, as well as extended family, still attend sweat lodges and occasionally smoke peyote during the spring/fall seasons. Whenever a kid or old person gets the spooks, we sometimes burn sage in the house as a sort of comforting action. Of course nobody believes in the freaky monster shit of the past, but it makes the kids and older generation feel better.
My experiences aren't the greatest, but I thought they would fit well in this thread.
Andrew Harris
>okay I need my costume to look like a giant pile of hair >but make sure it's got a fu machu mustache
Ayden Rogers
The scissors dance is performed by inhabitants of Quechua villages and communities in the south-central Andes of Peru, and now in urban settings. This competitive ritual dance is performed during dry months coinciding with the main phases of the agricultural calendar. Together with a violinist and a harpist, a dancer forms a ''cuadrilla'' (team) that represents a given village or community. To perform, two or more ''cuadrillas'' face each other, and the dancers must strike the blades together in time to the rhythm of the accompanying musicians, while performing a choreographed duel of step-dancing, acrobatics and increasingly demanding movements. The competition or ''atipanakuy'' may last up to ten hours. It's described by some as 500-year-old break dancing. The scissor dancers descend from the "Tusuq laykas" or sorcerer dancers, who were persecuted in the colony. During colonial times they began to be known as "supaypa wawan" (son of the devil in Quechua) and take refuge in the highest areas. Eventually, the colonists accepted they return but conditioned them to dance to the saints and to the catholic God.
Iranian here, we just finished a small get-together for Shab-e Yalda, a Zoroastrian holiday marking the longest night of the year, the winter solstice.
why is it that many ancient traditions also involve being dicks to animals
maybe out of a sense of species superiority?
Brayden Bennett
Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inca engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge is built in only three days. The bridge has been rebuilt in this same location continually since the time of the Incas.
mother son incest was apparently a big thing according to a japanese doujin artist. At the very least milfs used to take the virginities of teenage boys and old men used to do the same for girls.
Dunno how true that is. But apparently its still a meme there today.
Jack Nelson
Eyd-e Norouz, the Iranian new year which is said to predate Zoroastrianism
Cooper Richardson
A small price to pay in the fight against islamisation and globalism.
Gavin Jones
Loving those Reebok kicks.
Isaiah Phillips
>pagan furries
Evan Nelson
"Kattenstoet" in Ieper, Belgium. Celebration of everything cat-related. Goes back to witch burnings era where cats were thrown off of buildings, although nowadays they just throw cat plushies. There's still a witch burning at the end, although recently there's been a shortage so now it's only every three years instead of yearly. Animals are dicks to eachother, humans are no exception.
Robert Carter
According to Plutarch, carrying a bride over the threshold is done in reference to the rape of the sabines.
The pelts are of real bears and kept by the families over many generations.
Justin Powell
>implying KKK wanted to remove Catholics just as much as they wanted to remove anything else that wasn't WASP
Thomas Long
Some isolated regions in the countryside of Brazil still retain Medieval Portuguese traditions that were abandoned everywhere else.
"Cavalhadas", for example, are events based on medieval tournaments and their imagery is based in the Matter of France (which remains popular in these regions, unlike everywhere else in the world).
Robert Watson
In the east of the Netherlands and the North-west of Germany they light fires during Easter. Supposedly it is a continuation of a pagan holiday. Judging on the location of easter fires it is likely Saxon In some parts of Germany they have a variation called "Feuerrad". Here, a wheel of straw is set on fire and rolled off a hill
Where do you get the witches from? Just pick a random old lady and burn her?
Ethan Thompson
Now that I think about it, this was pretty fucked. I remember at the time that I was pretty pumped to get circumcised without anesthetics, the "manly" way, only for us to move somewhere less third world and get circumcised with anesthetics. Now I feel that I would pussy out.
I'll expand more on the without-anesthetic version, since your pic related is making it more gritty. Basically, they pull up your foreskin a bit, place a blade on top, just over the head, and hit it with something, making the circumcision almost instant. You're supposed to chew on guava leaves while all of this shit is happening, and jump towards a river after they strike the blade and cut off your foreskin.
