All Malaysia.info: Festivals and Celebrations: Thaipusam : … Several hundred devotees spear their cheeks with long, shiny steel rods – often a metre long – and pierce their chests and backs with small, hook-like needles in penance….
…it is believed that any devotee carrying a kavadi in fulfilment of vows will have their wishes granted…
sttemple.com: Thaipusam 2005 (will be held on Tuesday, 25th January 2005)
The links to the images are incorrect…
Update: See Handling of forward and backward slash in URL. In the sttemple URL, backslash has been used instead of slash (forward) and this usage is rendered by IE but not by Firefox. Have written to sttemple.com to fix the issue. In the meantime… it is quite easy to find out the correct link to the images… Link to the image folder removed upon request…
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Thanks for linking us. The images are corrected… Please do not use folder directly… it is blocked now…
The images in are fixed. The folder access is blocked now. Thanks for linking us.