Crying children placed in cow dung by parents in order to grant them good health and luck during primitive ceremony
The dung is decorated by the villagers with yellow and orange flowers and also peacock feathers. Despite children doing their best to escape, the young ones were forced to stay.
For the Hindu festival of Govardhan Puja which takes place in India, crying children were placed in cow dung by their parents who believe rubbing cow dung onto the skin can help to bring good health as well as good luck.
The children are placed on cow dung decorated with flowers while their parents rub it on their skin in order to be granted good health and protected from disease as part of the ritual or prayer. In the shocking footage, many children can be seen taking part in the ceremony where babies are placed down on to the dung while the older children voluntarily jump onto it.
