In India, every year on several occasions particularly when a God or Goddess is worshiped,
many people (mostly women) including children perform different rituals.
Most of the rituals are performed with the sole objective
for fulfilment of personal wishes by the almighty. In this case, on an auspicious summer day scores of people after
taking a dip in the holy river Ganga at Kalighat,
a renowned holy place in Kolkata, India were performing a very traditional ritual of India,
locally known as ‘Dondi’,
which is performed on the day of Shitala puja.
Devotees stake out unexampled ways to perform the ritual,
only with a belief that their personal wishes would surely be obtained.
As the ritual is performed during the hot summer mainly in the Mid of April,
the families of the devotee pour waters on street to prevent them from getting burnt. They do pay homage by crawling down the entire street up to the place where worshiping goes on. The course of action continued until they arrive the place of worship where Goddess Shitala is worshiped.
And every year one/two participants become frenzied midway and appear to be in a state of trance.
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