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To pass into manhood & marry, young men must successfully run across the backs of a dozen cattle. Before the bull jump, women of the tribe sing and dance themselves into an hypnotic frenzy. The women from the jumpers family plead to get whipped as proof of their courage and support for his passage into manhood