One of the major features of Thaipusam celebrations is body piercing with hooks, skewers and small lances called 'vel'. Some of the devotees pull chariots and heavy objects with hooks attached to their backs. Many others pierce their tongue and cheek to impede speech and thereby attain full concentration on the Lord. Devotees enter into a trance during such piercing due to the incessant drumming and chanting of "vel vel shakti vel."
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