10/16/10

CHILD THROWING RITUAL

did you hear about the child throwing ritual in india?

apparently like baptism or first communion, Indian children are subject to various rites-of-passage during their youth.
But unlike those Western traditions, this one could potentially leave a kid a bit worse for the wear.

In a custom believed to enhance children's physical health and stamina, priests in Maharashtra's Jaina town dangled hundreds of local youngsters by the arms and feet before tossing them to a crowd of devotees holding a cloth below,

These high-flying children range in age from two months to four years old, and were subject to the 500-year-old custom during Navratri, a nine-night festival marking both spring and autumn. Though priests are now limited to five feet, children were tossed as far as 40 feet in centuries past.

take a look at this insanity-


um... this bizarre practice reminds me of the scene from andy warhol's bad-

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