the most weird custom of every Empire in ancient Rome women used to purchase pots containing Gladiator sweat they used it as a facial cream to improve their complexion the Egyptians used crocodile dung as a contraceptive it had some effect as it made it harder for the sperm to survive I guess it mainly worked because it was a huge turn off in the first place the Vikings had a disturbing ritual in which the slave girl had to join her master in the afterlife when he died the girl would have to perform sexual rights with a man
from every house before she was sacrificed by The Village matriarch the Persians had a weird tradition in which they would get drunk after making a decision if they still felt the same way after getting drunk it was the right decision the Ottomans had a cruel way to prevent any succession Wars when a new Sultan came to power he was entitled by law to execute all his male siblings at the start of every Reign a long line of coffins most of whom were infants would exit the palace in a grand procession
