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The Bullet Ant Glove

A person of the Mawe ethnicity indigenous to South America may be subjected to the infamous “bullet ant glove”. It is a coming-of-age ritual notorious amongst anthropologists, an ancient rite of passage. The stings of these bullet ants are said to be so painful that they are compared to gunshot wounds. The neurotoxins of this species of ant will paralyze the hands and cause excruciating pain, something the adept will apparently have to endure 20 times before completion of this ritual of adulthood!