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HOOK-SWINGING IN THE MADURA DISTRICT OF MADRAS IN HONOUR OF THE GODDESS MARI-AMMA To an upright post a long cross-pole is pivoted in such a way that it can be either rotated or its ends raised and lowered. The ropes attached to the hooks are wound round the cross-pole, but not round the man's body, and supported only by the hooks he is raised clear of the platform seen in the lefthand picture. Two or three persons seated on a swing board at the other end then shuffle round with their feet, so rotating the fanatic, his deliberately incurred agony lasting as long as ten minutes |
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