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The wounds inflicted by the spikes and hooks do not bleed, and participants claim not to feel pain while in their trancelike state.

Author: Michael Yamashita

©Michael Yamashita. No usage authorized without prior written permission.

Photo size: 15.3 Mpixels (43.6 MB uncompressed) - 4783x3189 pixels (15.9x10.6 in / 40.5x27 cm at 300 ppi)

Photo keywords: Datak Chachar festival, Hindu Festival, Malacca, Malaysia, page 316, page 317, Silk Road, Zheng He book

Most fo the festival devotees are Chinese, descended from settlers who arrived with Zheng He's fleet. These Peranakan (Strait...

The wounds inflicted by the spikes and hooks do not bleed, and participants claim not to feel pain while in their trancelike ...

At the peak of the Datak Chachar festival, the procession of penitents, skin punctured with fishhooks, passes through Malacca.