There was a university professor who spoke about being born in Africa to our cross cultural psychology course. He had the very visable scars from the knife cuts on both sides of his face. (three long marks on each side that looked like cat whiskers) After telling us a wild tale about his battle with a tiger as a teeneager, he started laughing as he told us about the custom, and his grandmother making the tribal markings on his face with a knife shortly after he was born.
There are no tigers in Africa.
University professor with tribal markings? Oh, boy...