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In a bizarre religious ritual, villagers in India jumped into a huge pile of thorns from a rooftop. People of Lebageri village near Koppala in South India perform the thorn ritual every year to worship a local deity Marutheshwara.
A day prior to the festival, the villagers go to a nearby forest and pull out branches of various thorn-trees such as thorny acacia, thorn mimosa and gum arabic with their bare hands, and make a huge pile near a local temple. The next day the ritual is held.