Baby-throwing ritual in India

[NancyPreg]

From everybody's favourite daily:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1204699/Pictured-Horrific-baby-dropping-ritual-India-sees -toddlers-thrown-roof-good-prosperity.html

LAstTrain yes I thought that was odd-

been going on for hundreds of years yet it's ahrdly mentioned on the net anywhere and you'd think someone would ahve done so before

Like you say, you never heard of it; loads of colleaguespent time there when studying and trust me they weren't the type to keep quiet- make SGM and UQD look like secret religious devotees

Seems to have just suddenly emerged but then thats what gradually being signed up to the internet /wprld media does after all, reveals all the odd twists of humanity

I'm fairly sure I'd heard of it before, but not sure where. Unless (deity of choice forfend that there's more than one place doing this) that was a different village?

Seems there's two from what I can pull up, but both local and so obviously related

Peachy, the more you go into the interiors of India, the more bizarre rituals you will find. Nothing on the scale of this baby-throwing (I hope!) but bizarre nevertheless. As you say, global connection will bring this to light little by little, and there will always be something to shock us.

Your technical head talking made me laugh. I guess you're right in a way, after all HInduism is not a religion, it's a way of life, so it will cover all the quirky and whimsical local rituals too. But rest assured, the religion does not advocate baby-throwing! No religion would, I hope!

Oh I know that LOL- I just remember it being constantly drummed into us that it was one faith that cannot possibkly separated from its culture, plus of course to be a 'proper' Hindu you are supposed to be Indian which is unusual (excepting cults obv.)

there's bizarre oddities in most regions, there's always going to be an extreme I guess, though this really is scary. Tthere's enough looks of I get when explaining wassailing from Somerset (home county) her ein Wales, and that's alongside the bleedin M5!