Scarification

The act of scarification may include scratching, etching, burning or cutting into skins. But for a tribe living in Papua New Guinea, scarification is a ritual which every boy has to undergo in order to be treated as a man. The young boys are required to be cut in their back, chest and buttocks in order to give their body a crocodile like pattern. Need not to say the practice is awfully painful. But apart from the physical misery, the young boys also undergo mental trauma and humiliation for weeks which is thought to make them physically and psychologically tough.

Conceptually similar to bungee jumping, land diving is done with vines instead of elastic chords and the objective is to come as close to death as possible. Performed by the Vanuatu people, the jumpers goal is to brush his head on the ground. If he survives, hes a man. A very, very lucky man.