The giant swing

I sent a link to my daughter in Thailand for the website Atlas Obscura. People send in suggestions for oddities in countries around the world. This giant swing is certainly an oddity:

For centuries, the Giant Swing played a central role in annual swing ceremonies that symbolically reenacted elements of Hindu origin stories. In Hindu mythology Brahma tested the stability of the newly created world by ordering Shiva to stand on a mountain while giant snakes tried to shake him to the ground. The swing ceremony had teams of Thai men in elaborate headdresses competing to launch themselves into the air, where they would use their teeth catch a sack of coins tied to the top of a pole 25 meters (or more) above the ground. The stability of the swing and presumed success of the swingers represented the unshakable Shiva of Hindu legend.

Unfortunately, the ceremony was discontinued in 1935 after several participants fell to their deaths.