The festival of Pits

[Legs]

We're not talking Brad Pitt or or arm pit here.....


Indian police have charged 80 people for burying children alive in an ancient Hindu ceremony known as "the festival of pits."

The ceremony, in which children -- some less than a year old -- are buried alive briefly and then dug up, happened on Monday in southern Tamil Nadu state, The Asian Age reported on Thursday.

Every two years, parents who have vowed to bury their first-born if they are blessed with a child, take part in the Kuzhimattru Thiru Vizha ceremony.

The children are drugged to make them unconscious and placed in shallow "graves" in temple courtyards.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapc...eut/index.html

[viscousmemories]

I'm just gonna follow you around fixing your links, if you don't mind.

That's pretty freaky stuff. I wonder why the article title says 'buried alive' in quotes, like that's not precisely what they're doing...

[livius drusus]

Aw c'mon... They're only in the pit for a minute. I've been buried alive longer than that at concerts.

[beyelzu]

when I hear buried alive, I assume you know kill bill style buried alive, not covered with dirt until the priest says a short prayer.

[viscousmemories]

Okay yeah, that's a good point. I guess 'buried alive' does usually mean attempted murder.