File:Códice Casanatense Hook Swinging.jpg

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English: An anonymous 16th century Portuguese illustration featured in the Códice Casanatense, now kept at the Casanata Library in Rome. It depicts a Hindu ritual of self-mutilation, referred to by the Portuguese as enganchamento ("hooking").

The inscription reads: "Sacrifice that the gentiles do to their gods, [by] piercing their loins with iron hooks on such a pole, and cut their flesh with a dagger and put it in the tip of such bows and shoot them at the air, and thus they end their lives; the people that witness this take their flesh and keep them as relics".

Hindu rituals were thoroughly described by the Portuguese in the 16th and 17th century.
Date circa 1540
date QS:P,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Album di disegni, illustranti usi e costumi dei popoli d'Asia e d'Africa con brevi dichiarazioni in lingua portoghese, Casanata Library, Rome. http://opac.casanatense.it/Record.htm?Record=19921898124917490709
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