Bizarre Baby Rituals
Parents all over the world want what's best for their children--they just have different ways of showing it.
It doesn't matter where you live: Paris, Bombay or a tiny, remote island off the coast of Bali. All parents want to keep their kids safe healthy and happy. In America, one of the ways we protect our babies is by placing them in special reinforced seats when driving in a car.
In India, they toss them off buildings.
Yes, for the past 500 years in a small Indian village, they've been hurling tiny babies from a 50-foot temple--caught below in a sheet. All in the name of good luck. Guess their good luck starts the second they hit the tautly held fabric.
In Russia, as a way of insuring hearty children, a ritual at a popular daycare involves pouring freezing water on tots while they run around in their underwear.
And in Spain, every May 25th since 1620, the Baby-Jumping Colacho Festival features men dressed as Satan who jump over rows of infants (like an Olympic hurdler) to keep the devil away from the babes.
Throwing babies, hurdling infants and dousing kids with freezing cold water?! In America, these rituals could only mean one word: Lawsuit.
What do you think? Are these people crazy or just crazy about babies?
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