Hook swinging😮😲🤯
In the northern peninsula,like in the east,sacred space "where largely out of the control of political or militant forces and provided greater opportunities to exhibit freely a range of emotions and behaviour prohibited or dangerous in the censorious atmosphere elsewhere "
The worship of Amman(mother goddesses)such as kaliamman and mariamman had increased along with instances of sprit possession among the latter's female devotees.
Interest was the increase in hookswinging popularly referred to as "thukkukaavadi"among young Tamil men,a practice not paralleled in the east.Thukku means" to hang" and there are many variations of hanging from a wooden scaffold erected on a tractor that is practiced