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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Children sit beside different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to ward off evil energy, according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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18 October 2025

Artists make different figures of demons, commonly known as Dakini and Jogini, who are believed to be companions of Goddess Kali, at a potters' hub in Kolkata, India, on October 18, 2025, ahead of Bhoot Chaturdashi in the city. Bhoot Chaturdashi, or Indian Halloween, is observed a day ahead of Kali Puja. It is believed that evil spirits visit the earthly realm on this day, and tantriks perform dark rituals. People light candles and oil lamps at the doors and windows of their homes to get rid of evil energy according to popular belief.

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