Ep 12. Extreme Rituals

An examination of rituals from around the world which deal in the passage of one phase of life to another. Included is a headfirst leap from a 70 foot high tower by boys on an island in the South Pacific. In Papua, New Guinea, a young woman gets her face tattooed before her marriage ceremony. A man in West Africa participates in a bloodletting ceremony which will ready him for the priesthood.