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PiscesIndian Baby-Tossing Ritual Cruel?
For the past century, in a small Indian village, they've been hurling tiny babies from the 50-foot Sri Santeswar temple -- and catching the tiny tots below in a sheet -- all in the name of good luck. For the babies, we're guessing their good luck starts the second they hit the tautly held fabric.
Thousands of people travel to visit Karnataka, a village in the district of Bijapur in southern India, where the festivities take place.
The tradition, which plummets roughly 200 infants a year over the historic Hindu building, has been under review by the Karnataka Commission for the Protection of Child Rights. Now the group plans to halt the ritual. According to reports, Deputy Commissioner R Shantharaj believes the practice to be "inhuman and terrifying for babies."
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HOLY CRAP!
it does sound a bit odd and risky but when you compare it to other cultures circumcising babies which is mutilation and scaring for life tossing babies off a building seems like a much better alternative.
Why will it be that I cannot open your blog from Chrome? There is some error about script and screen goes black.
There has never actually been a baby injured during this ritual. The parents do it because they love thier babies and they believe it is good for them. It’s not our way so of course we have to deem it wrong. A little research goes a long way…