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Pain Gains: What an Amazonian ritual can teach us about dealing with suffering | by Marcus Macgregor | Medium
![Bullet ants, native to Central and South America, have one of the most painful stings in the world. Their stings produce waves of agony that last 12 to 24 hours. The Indigenous Bullet ants, native to Central and South America, have one of the most painful stings in the world. Their stings produce waves of agony that last 12 to 24 hours. The Indigenous](https://i.redd.it/zu6v4cvni1b71.jpg)
Bullet ants, native to Central and South America, have one of the most painful stings in the world. Their stings produce waves of agony that last 12 to 24 hours. The Indigenous
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Coyote Peterson stung by a bullet ant with the most painful sting in the world sting | Daily Mail Online
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Pain Gains: What an Amazonian ritual can teach us about dealing with suffering | by Marcus Macgregor | Medium
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The Painful Rite of Passage of the Satere-Mawe Tribe of Brazil | by Belinda Mallasasime | The Story in History | Medium
Food Interesting Facts - The Sateré-Mawé tribe of Brazil follow a ritual in which a person is made to wear bullet ant woven gloves in order to become a warrior. The ants
TYBA ONLINE :: Subject: Detail of straw glove with bullet ants used to tucandeira rite - Tarruape Village of the Satere-mawe tribe / Place: Manacapuru city - Amazonas state (AM) - Brazil <
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Stinging Ants: Amazon Indigenous Group Girds Itself to Hold Ancestral Lands | Rainforest Journalism Fund
Lad Gets Stung By 200 Bullet Ants | This lad's hands got painfully stung by 200 bullet ants as part of an ancient Amazonian tradition - they were so swollen the next
![Joseph Lee Spencer on X: "On Schmidt's pain scale, the bullet ant (#Paraponera clavata) sting rates a 4 – the most painful. Astoundingly, the manhood rites of one indigenous Brazilian group require Joseph Lee Spencer on X: "On Schmidt's pain scale, the bullet ant (#Paraponera clavata) sting rates a 4 – the most painful. Astoundingly, the manhood rites of one indigenous Brazilian group require](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMeIXhJXwAE-1j0.jpg:large)