The Sateré-Mawé tribe believe that any boy who wants to become a man must experience the worst pain the jungle has to offer and stick their arm inside the bullet ant glove.
The Sateré-Mawé are a tribe that lives in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, who have a bizarre and painful rite of passage that all boys of the tribe must endure to be accepted as men.
The Mawé believe that any boy who wants to become a man must experience the worst pain the jungle has to offer: the sting of Paraponera clavata, the bullet ant.
The bullet ant is a species of ant with the most painful sting of any insect. True to its name, the ant supposedly has a sting that feels comparable to being shot with a bullet.
