Charaka festival in Bengal, thookkam festival in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and Sidi in Karnataka are all the same. The ritualistic performance where people are suspended from a height on a moving tree trunk by piercing their bodies and its myth associated with Kali, Devi, Murugan and association with childbirth is an exciting connection. How this tantric practice that became a ritual associated with Hinduism spread from Bengal, Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Kerala (excluding Orissa and Andhra Belt) is an exciting story.
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