This was also called Karagam and is the forerunner of Karagattam of the present day, which is a dance balancing a pot on the head. This Another form of worship is for the devotees to hang on a crane(Chedil) with a hook pierced in their body or tied to the pole by cloth. She is considered to be responsible for the pox epidemics which used to wipe away entire villages in the bye gone era. People believed that she did not tolerate any clinical treatment for such diseases except worshipping her and caressing the eruptions of the pox (called Muthu- pearls) with margosa leaves. People believed that in a pox affected person, she has come in person and would not go away unless she is propitiated. One such form of propitiation is the singing of “Mariamman Thalattu” (Lullaby to mariamman) accompanied by fast playing of a small drum.
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