India is a country full of diversity and cultures where every part has its own story to tell. In such a situation, there are some beliefs and traditions related to different parts of the country. These traditions are being celebrated here since ancient times. But among the festivals celebrated in India, some traditions are unusual in themselves, which becomes a bit difficult to believe. Somewhere in the name of customs, someone is married to a dog-frog, and somewhere people lie down on the way of running cows to fulfill their vow. Today in this episode, we are going to tell you about some such strange and strange traditions of the country which will make you think too. Let's know about them...

Single boys beaten with sticks for marriage
In Jodhpur, Rajasthan, there is a custom of beating unmarried boys with sticks. Married women do the work of beating them. Boys also get killed silently. Now foreign women also participate in this tradition. Women get dressed and come out of their houses with sticks. It is believed that the boys who are thrashed get married in the next year.

Frog wedding
You must have heard about people marrying trees in India, but have you ever heard about frog marriages? If you have not heard then you may be a little surprised but it is true. In some parts of our country, for good rains, the marriage of frog and frog is done with full custom. The people of the village in Assam's Jorhat district believe that if wild frogs are married in a traditional Hindu wedding, it will bring an end to a prolonged drought and bring heavy rains within a few days. And these frogs are married following all Hindu marriage traditions. Are priests also included?

Throwing children from a height of 50 feet
Baba Umar's Dargah in Sholapur, Maharashtra has a very strange tradition. Here Hindus and Muslims throw their children down from a height of about 50 feet and the people standing below catch those children with a sheet. They believe that doing this strengthens the health and body of the children. This tradition has been going on for more than 700 years.

Walking on hot coals
The festival called Timithi popular in Tamil Nadu is one of the most bizarre traditions in India. This festival, devotees celebrate the festival by walking barefoot on burning coals to honor the Hindu goddess Draupati Amman. If you thought bhakts can walk faster across hot coals, you are wrong again! To please the Goddess, the devotees have to walk slowly. Which is very dangerous and painful.

Breaking coconut on head
Although many things are done in the name of faith in India, but one of the surprising stories includes breaking coconuts on the heads of the devotees. This work is done in a temple in Tamil Nadu. It is believed that breaking a coconut on the head will please the gods and lead the town to prosperity and well-being. Many people also get injured while breaking a coconut. To stop the bleeding and heal the wound, the temple priests apply turmeric and incense sticks on the heads of the devotees. This tradition is followed with great devotion by the local people.

The mountain tells the gender of the baby
Khukhra village of Jharkhand has a unique tradition that has been going on for the last 400 years. There is a moon shape made on a mountain in this village. The people of the village believe that this moon-shaped mountain tells the gender of the unborn child. Pregnant women throw stones from a distance. If this stone appears inside the shape made like the moon, then it is believed that there is a boy in the womb. If it looks outside, then a girl is growing in the womb. The villagers have unwavering faith in this tradition.

Cows walking on man's back
Garbada is a town in Gujarat where one of the strangest traditions of India can be seen during Garbada Ekadashi. Please tell that this city is home to the tradition of walking cows on people's backs. Which sometimes proves to be extremely painful and dangerous. Since cows are considered sacred in Hinduism. That's why it is believed that your problems will be reduced if the cows trample on you.

Bury children alive
There is a very strange tradition in the rural areas of northern Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Where children are buried up to their necks in the ground to save them from physical and mental disabilities. The belief behind this is that the soil is very sacred and under this custom, children are kept inside the soil for 6 hours.

Eating a dead person's body
Aghori Baba lives in Varanasi, India. This is the body of a dead person. Notorious for eating bits and pieces of meat. They believe that by doing this the fear of death will go away from their mind forever. Apart from this, they will get spiritual knowledge. According to Hindu belief, the cremation of holy persons, children, pregnant, unmarried girls, leprosy, and people bitten by snakes is not done. All these are thrown into the river Ganges. Aghori Baba takes them out from there and completes his rituals.