- @Amrapali #img-anno http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Bhairavi_16_Areca_palm_leaf_performing.jpg/220px-Bhairavi_16_Areca_palm_leaf_performing.jpg {u'shapes': [{u'geometry': {u'y': 0.07259953161592506, u'x': 0.9090909090909091, u'width': 0.036363636363636376, u'height': 0.02107728337236535}, u'type': u'rect'}], u'src': u'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Bhairavi_16_Areca_palm_leaf_performing.jpg/220px-Bhairavi_16_Areca_palm_leaf_performing.jpg', u'context': u'http://testapp.swtr.us/', u'comment': u'Padyani is a modern form of a ritual dance( Kolam thullal) performed by the magico-medicine men of kerala (particularly Tinta sect of Ganaka community ) Earlier this elaborate and expensive event was carried out to heal the illnesses not amenable to medical modalities of intervention.In the form of psychic or spiritual healing, it was solely designed, controlled and performed by Tinta endogenous section of Ganaka, as a method of exorcism. This folk art has become a devine ritual tradition in association with festival occasions of Bhagavathy (Bhadrakaali) temples of Kerala.'} created: Fri, 05 Sep 2014, 05:42 PM UTC