A procession goes through the streets and enlists followers by putting a thread round their necks.

Every man thus enlisted must join the party and go about with it till the end of the ceremony under pain of losing caste.

On the day before the swinging, men thrust iron or bamboo sticks through their arms or tongues.

On the next day they march in procession to the swinging tree, where the men are suspended by hooks and whirled round the tree four or five times.
It is considered a pious act in India to build temples, dig tanks, or plant trees by the roadside.

Rich people have idols in their houses for daily worship, and pay a priest who comes every morning to wake up the idols, wash and dress them, and offer them their food.