What mind-boggling traditions persist in backward parts of Africa?

Bizarre traditions persist in backward parts of Africa, from the practice of inheriting other people's wives, to eating dirt and drinking blood, to some gruesome customs.

Africa's custom of inheriting another man's wife.

Africa has a very long civilization and has been written down from a very early age. Very underdeveloped transportation, the footsteps of Europeans at that time also but know the southern part of Africa, resulting in other areas are still primitive society, with strange traditions. Europe's slave trade, so that Africa lost the young and strong, so there is a peculiar custom. It was that if a man died, his brother could inherit his wife. The wife became a kind of property, used to ensure strong ties between clans.

The African custom of eating dirt and drinking blood.

In backward places such as the Gulf of Guinea region, adults and children may take the earth and play with it well before simply picking it up and eating it. The clay products taste very fishy and most of them are salty and bitter, but the look on their faces seems to be that they are about to eat chocolate. Even the markets are specialized in people selling these clays, which they believe are rich in vitamins and also replenish the body. If it is the Samburu and Masai you come across, they will serve you with roasted meat and some fresh blood as a drink.

There are also some gruesome customs.

Some customs within the African culture are not only strange, but also horrible. For their own people, they have circumcision, much like the rest of the world. A ceremony would be organized to indicate that a boy or a girl is going to mature, and then it is done with the help of a knife. Since there was no anesthetic, it was life or death, and it was the brave adults who endured and survived. Women couldn't get away with it either, and it's now banned in many places.

With outsiders, if the patriarch gives the order to kill someone, they still do it. To African bullfighters, they don't offer any protection, it's still whatever the day brings. Doctors are extinguished there, but there are witchdoctors, on the other hand, like to take a snake and put it in the patient's mouth first to predict the first, think about it or creepy.