Wedding nights are supposedly for consummating a m...  ...ding night.Read about more of these wedding night rituals and traditions at Atlas Obscura.

In the Victorian Era, when the child mortality rat...  ...sn’t mean it was easy, so certain rules and rituals grew into being to help the bereaved properly cop...  ...a victim of scorn and gossip. Read more about the rituals

(Photo: Vice)It is an ancient ceremony of mysterio...  ...eeds need water to grow, so the villagers perform rituals that encourage rain.This means collecting human b...

(Photo: 豊瀬源一)Scholar Nicholas S. Anderson...  .... One result of this belief is an annual funerary ritual called Hari-Kuyo. On February 8 of every year, Ja...

Swedish archaeologists have pulled a trove of 8,00...  ...hat was formerly a lake near Motala, Sweden. The rituals at Kanaljorden were conducted on a massive stone...  ...The skull depositions at Kanaljorden are clearly ritual in character. The next step is to find out if the...  ...d that were handled in a com...

Large mazes or labyrinths served different purposees at different times inhistory, but they are always fun! In the 16th century, garden mazes were features of many noble gardens. They enabled people to mix socially, to g...

What did you do when you "became a man"...  ...take a look at six of the Strangest Coming of Age Rituals in the World: Walkabout I...  ...a man ... Steve Backshall went through the ritual and described it in The Sunday Times:...  ...interestingly, my host, who ha...