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Watch: Married women lie on the ground for priests to walk over them as fertility ritual

The ritual takes place every year at Chhattisgarh’s annual Madai Mela.

Scroll Staff
Nov 23, 2020 · 04:14 pm
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#WATCH Hundreds of people gathered at the annual Madai Mela in Chhattisgarh's Dhamtari on 20th November, amid the ongoing COVID19 pandemic pic.twitter.com/xZuFeNNrAO

— ANI (@ANI) November 22, 2020
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