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7 Bizarre Birthday Traditions Around The World that Will Scare the Hell Out of You
Some really unusual celebrations you have to reread to believe.
Birthdays have significant importance in our lives, and it is celebrated by everyone no matter what age you are or which part of the world you live in.
Birthdays celebrated in the West are pretty self-centred. How? Celebrants’ family and friends take time out of their busy lives to celebrate the occasion with their loved ones by baking treats and buying you presents and getting them drunk if the celebrant is old enough.
In some other parts, the birthday celebrant is the one who throws the birthday party, whether it be baking a cake or buying drinks. It’s all on you. As it is time when you celebrate the people in your life, and this makes sense to some extent.
But some celebrating traditions will boggle your mind, whether it be throwing a newborn off the roof of a temple or celebrating the birthday of everyone on the same day.
In this article, we will try to find out a bit more about the world’s birthday traditions, which you might find interesting or just bizarre.
1. Tossing Of Newborn From The Temple Roof In Delhi
Most of us celebrate a newly born person by giving well wishes for their future, gifts, flowers and so on, but in some parts of India, things are done rather oddly.
In Delhi, some believe that throwing an infant off the roof of Baba Umer Durga’s (shrine) will bring good fortune to the young one.
Yeah! I know what you might be thinking now, throwing an infant off the roof won’t kill the baby?
But in this case, the parents use some garment sheet or net to catch the falling baby.
