After Poongodi's puberty ceremony, she changes her behaviour and shows sympathy for Venu.

Adolescent boys sought guardian spirits called tinihowi and both genders experienced puberty ceremonies.

Even today, young Apache girls wear necklaces with scratching sticks and drinking tubes during their puberty ceremonies.

A boy who "acted strangely" before he participated in the boy's puberty ceremonies in the Mohave tribe would be considered for the transvestite ceremony.

Boys' puberty ceremonies involved nose-piercing, racing, and fasting.

The puberty ceremonies were an occasion not only for temple honor, but also for community feasting and celebration in which the local elites also participated.

When she came of age, she had the first puberty ceremony (kinaalda).

Ruth Benedict, writing of puberty ceremonies in various societies, sheds some light on this seemingly paradoxical cultural attitude.

A "puberty ceremony" was held when boys and girls reached a certain age, and at the conclusion of the procession the child was available for marriage.

The Thirandukalyanam ceremony was the puberty ceremony, during which femininity is celebrated as women occupy the parts of the household typically inhabited by men.