URGENT HELP NEEDED - Name of Festival

To: soc-religion-hindu@uunet.uu.net
Subject: URGENT HELP NEEDED - Name of Festival
From: pichej@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Piche Jean)
Date: 3 Jul 96 23:39:08 GMT
Newsgroups: soc.religion.hindu
Organization: Universite de Montreal




I urgently need to find the proper name of a yearly hindu festival of 
atonement. In the surrounding celebrations, holy men walk around with 
spikes in their bodies or are suspended with hooks on a rolling platform. 
I have witnessed this in Kodaikanal in South India on May 17th 1995. 
Thaipusam is a similar festival but seems to take place in Malysia only.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as I have to do titling shots 
tomorrow morning...

Thanks!


jp
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                                                                   Jean Piche
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                                                      pichej@ERE.Umontreal.ca

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