Where do you think the bride price is the most expensive?
The most expensive bride price in the world is in a primitive tribe in Africa, which requires 20 cattle and 20 sheep to marry a wife
The Pokot people of Kenya, Africa, have lived for generations on the shores of the fertile Balinggo Lake, where the environment is so secluded that it is difficult to find their presence without anyone to lead the way.
The Pokots are very xenophobic, they don't welcome people from other places very much, they are basically isolated from the outside world, which has allowed them to maintain their long-standing tradition, their strange and cruel customs.
The Pocotts achieve polygamy, a man can marry multiple wives, coupled with the fact that Africans never use contraception, each family generally has more than 10 children, together forming a huge family.
The Pokot are a semi-nomadic people who live by herding all kinds of livestock, and the number of cattle and sheep is a symbol of wealth, and it is all about being able to marry several wives.
Therefore, there will be a common phenomenon in the whole world, rich people marry and have children at a very young age, give birth to more than 10 children before the age of 30, and poor people do not even have a wife until the age of 40.
The standard of marriage here is too high, cattle and sheep are part of the bride price, the specific price is linked to the bride's appearance, generally at least 20 cows and 20 sheep, the highest is said to be 50 sheep, this price is placed elsewhere, it is definitely not a small number, for the Pokot, although each family can take it, but it is impossible to give up the survival of a family for a son, so there are a lot of "single sticks" here, although they are only twenty or thirty years old, But for Pocotts, who can marry at the age of 13, this is already a proper older youth.
Of course, this situation is not surprising, and it is common all over the world, but the most criticized is the cruel marriage customs of the Pocots.
The way to get married here is very simple, as long as you look at the girl of which family, directly find the other party's father, and negotiate the price.
After the negotiation, the man can take the bride at any time, just need to bring the prepared cattle and sheep, come to the woman's home, you can snatch the bride back, and the woman's father will only check whether the livestock is enough and fat at the first time, and the daughter's feelings are not in his consideration.
In the Pokot people, women have no status, but as a tool for childbirth and house cleaning, they will not be told about major matters in the family, and they do not even have the right to know about their weddings, so many girls do not know what is happening when they are "taken away".
No matter who it is, it is absolutely unacceptable to face this situation, crying and struggling will happen every time, fortunately, the Pocott people have a lot of "experience" in this regard, the man does not care about these things at all, forcibly brings the "bride" home, after taking it home, locks the "bride" who has been struggling and crying in the house, goes out to feast on relatives and friends, holds a wedding without a hostess, and waits until the bride is tired and hungry, and has no strength to resist, and the bride will be released, and a wedding will end "satisfactorily".
The women of the Pocott tribe are selected like commodities, with no dignity to speak of, which is the sadness of women, but the men here are not as easy as imagined.
Every man here has to go through a life-and-death test – circumcision.
Circumcision is a backward feudal custom that was previously very popular in Africa, targeting both men and women, but with the development of society, only a small number of tribes continue this practice, and the Pocotts are one of them, but their circumcision is only for men.
When each boy reaches adulthood, he undergoes such a test, and the operation is usually performed by his own relatives, and his father or brothers perform the operation.
When circumcising, a "ancestral" knife is used, not only rusty on it, but also very blunt, this is not cutting at all, but cutting, the whole process will not use any anesthetic, the person who receives the circumcision must hold back the whole time can not shout, once the cry will become the object of ridicule, even with the family can not lift their heads, the whole circumcision process is only a few minutes, but for the person to be circumcised, it is like a thousand years have passed.
After the operation was completed, the wound was sprinkled with grass and wood ash, and a circumcision ended smoothly, followed by death or life, and every year people died due to blood loss and wound infection, but this behavior could not be stopped.
This is the magical Pokot tribe, with not only cruel weddings, but also even more terrible circumcision customs.
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