Unique Ritual: Pelting Stones to Appease Goddess
Shimla – A day after the festival of lights, a unique stone pelting fair was organised Saturday as part of an annual ritual in the former princely state of Dhami in Himachal Pradesh.
In local parlance it is known as ‘pattharon ka mela’ (fair of stones). During the fair, male adults gathered in a ground and pelted each other with small stones in Dhami village, some 40 km from Himachal Pradesh’s capital Shimla.
‘More than 500 people gathered in the village this (Saturday) noon for the ritual. People who got injured and bled, smeared the forehead of Goddess Kali (a deity in a temple) with their blood,’ fair organiser Jagdeep Singh told IANS. Read More................Unique Himachal ritual: Pelting stones to appease goddess
In local parlance it is known as ‘pattharon ka mela’ (fair of stones). During the fair, male adults gathered in a ground and pelted each other with small stones in Dhami village, some 40 km from Himachal Pradesh’s capital Shimla.
‘More than 500 people gathered in the village this (Saturday) noon for the ritual. People who got injured and bled, smeared the forehead of Goddess Kali (a deity in a temple) with their blood,’ fair organiser Jagdeep Singh told IANS. Read More................Unique Himachal ritual: Pelting stones to appease goddess
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