The Sateré-Mawé Bullet-Ant Glove Initiation

The documented Sateré-Mawé (Brazilian Amazon) male initiation ritual in which documented adolescent boys (typically age 12-13) documented insert their hands into documented woven palm gloves containing documented dozens of live Paraponera clavata bullet ants — whose documented sting is documented ranked highest (4.0+) on the documented Schmidt sting pain index, comparable to a documented gunshot wound — and documented hold them on for documented 5-10 minutes while documented dancing; the documented ritual must be documented endured a documented total of 20 separate times across documented years to be documented recognized as a documented Sateré-Mawé adult man. The documented practice is documented severely painful, documented physiologically dangerous, and documented documented in documented anthropological literature as one of the documented most extreme initiation rituals on Earth.