Weird Thanksgiving Ceremony of the Tamils When. a Tamil Hindu recovers from a serious illness he sometimes makes a vow to do something entailing discomfort and pain to him-sell a6 a sert of manifestation of gratitude combined with self-sacrifice and golf-abasement. These vows take different forms, such as rolling over and over on a hard metalled road, lashing himself or being lashed on the back, wearing a hair shirt, and things like that—but walking over live coals is the means most commonly chosen the devotee, this being very often accompanied by other forms of self-torture.
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