Kataragama: a god for all seasons

United Kingdom, 1974

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Episode of Series “Disappearing world”.
The story of how the parents of an eleven-year old Sri Lankan boy consulted an astrologer to help them find their son. The astrologer instructs them to seek help from the god, Kataragama, who correctly forecast the boy would be returned in twenty one days. Shows scenes of worshippers of Kataragama who thank him for favours received by walking through pits of red hot fire. Some hung themselves from butcher’s hooks impaled in their backs.

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producer/director

Charlie Nairn

production company

Granada Television International

Duration

00:52:43:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1974

Appears in

Disappearing world

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Disappearing world

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