Silkie : The ornamental chicken

The Silkie is a breed of chicken named for its uncommon fluffy plumage, which is said to feel like silk .


The Silkie Chicken is the lap dog of the chicken world, with many people owning them because of their docile temperament and amazingly soft & fluffy feathers. It looks like a living cotton ball when walking in your backyard and they are most likely originated in ancient
China.

The breed has several other unusual qualities, such as black skin, flesh, and bones, blue earlobes, and five toes on each foot, whereas most chickens only have four. They are often exhibited in poultry shows, and appear in various colors.
Although in the Western world silkie chickens are sold mainly for
ornamental purposes, in countries like China they are considered a super food and are appreciated for their deep, gammy flavor.


All Silkies have black skin, bones and grayish-black meat; their Chinese language name is wu gu ji literally meaning "black- boned chicken".Melanism which extends beyond the skin into an animal's
connective tissue is a rare trait, and the Silkie is one of only a handful of chickens to exhibit it.

Strange custom : The tribe where kids start having sex at 6

The Trobriand Islands (today officially known as the Kiriwina Islands) or Love Islands are a 450 km² archipelago of coral atolls off the eastern coast of New Guinea .
They are part of the nation of Papua New Guinea and are situated in Milne Bay Province . Most of the population of 12,000
indigenous inhabitants live on the main island of Kiriwina , which is also the location of the government
station, Losuia.

One interesting thing about this people is that children "enjoy
considerable sexual freedom and
independence ". At seven or eight years of age, Trobriand children
begin to play erotic games with each other and imitate adult seductive attitudes. About four or five years later, they begin to pursue sexual partners in earnest.
They change partners often. Women are just as assertive and dominant as men in pursuing or refusing a lover. This is not only allowed but encouraged.






The attitude of the grown-ups and even of the parents towards such
infantile indulgence is either that of complete indifference or of
complacency -- they find it natural, and do not see why they should scold or interfere. Usually they show a kind of tolerant and amused interest, and discuss the love affairs of their children with easy jocularity. It is possible to hear benevolent gossip as this among the parents: «So-and-so (a
little girl) has already had intercourse with So-and- so (a little boy).» And if such were the case, it
would be added that it was her first experience. An exchange of lovers, or some small love drama in the little world would be half-seriously, half- jokingly discussed. The infantile sexual act, or its substitute, is regarded as an innocent amusement . It is their play to "kaita" (to have intercourse). They give each other a coconut, a small piece of betelnut, a few beads or some fruits from the bush, and then
they go and hide, and "kaita".» But it is not considered proper for the
children to carry on their affairs in the house. It has always to be done in the bush.





The unregulated intercourse for these early years becomes systematised in adolescence into more or less stable intrigues, which later on develop into permanent liaisons. Connected with these latter stages of sexual life, there exists in the Trobriand Islands an extremely interesting institution, the bachelors' and unmarried girls' house, called by the natives "Bukumatula"; it is of considerable importance, as it is one of those arrangements sanctioned by custom which might appear on the surface to be a form of "group-marriage".





In the Trobriand Islands, there is no traditional marriage ceremony. And it is not unusual for a teenaged girl to sleep with many boys as this was a good practice to determine who would make a good husband .
A Trobriand couple wishing to marry, could also display their interest by not only sleeping together but spending time together and staying with each other for several weeks. The girl's
parents approve of the couple when a girl accepts a gift from a boy. After that, the girl moves to the
boy's house, eats her meals there and accompanies her husband
all day. Word subsequently spreads that the boy and girl are married.

Weird body modification: The plated tribes.

The lip plate, also known as a lip plug or lip disc, is a form of body modification. Increasingly larger discs (usually circular, made from clay or wood) are inserted into a pierced hole in either the upper or lower lip, or both, thereby stretching it.

Archaeological evidence indicates that labrets have been independently invented no fewer than six times, in Sudan and Ethiopia (8700 BC), Mesoamerica (1500 BC), and Coastal Ecuador (500 BC). Today, the custom is maintained by a few groups in Africa and Amazonia.

In Africa, a lower lip plate is usually combined with the excision of the two lower front teeth, and sometimes all four.
Among the Sara people and Lobi a plate is also inserted into the upper lip. Other tribes, such as the Makonde, used to wear a plate in the upper lip only. In many older sources it is reported that the plate's size is a sign of social or economical importance in some tribes.






However, because of natural mechanical attributes of human skin, it seems that the plate's size often just depends on the stage of stretching the lip and the wishes of the wearer.






The tradition to wear plates has appeared not because of beauty, rather vice- versa. For example when Ethiopian Mursi,were captured and taken into bondage, they violently had crippled themselves, and nobody wanted to take them after that. Now the size of a plate is a beauty criterion. The more is plate, the more cattle will be given for the bride. Girls-
mursi always have a choice to do the hole in a lip or not. But for the girl without the stretched lip a very small repayment is given.







The original purpose of lip plugs may have been to deform, affording women a sort of protection against Arab slavers. However,David Livingstone asked a
chief the reason for them and in surprise the chief answered; for beauty!




He continued in his wisdom that " They are the only beautiful things women have. Men have beards women have none. What kind of person would she be without Pelele? She would not be a woman at all."

What a beauty enhancer ! I hope most female readers will get a lip plug or plate too to make them look beautiful.

Strange Sickness:Proteus Syndrome

Proteus syndrome causes an
overgrowth of skin, bones,
muscles, fatty tissues, and
blood and lymphatic vessels

Proteus Syndrome is an extremely
rare disease and named
after a Greek god who could
change his forms.

In
Lancashire, England, Mandy
Sellars, suffering from this rare
Proteus syndrome with her
legs growing non-stop and
doctors might decide to
amputate her legs. They
weigh 98 kg and worse is
her leg never stop growing.











For more

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Sellars

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