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Annual walk of faith and agony
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Spikes of a Kavadi are pierced through the skin of a Hindu devotee at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple during the Thaipusam festival in Singapore. (AP)
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A devotee with a big piercing rests as he makes his way towards the Murugan temple during one of the world's most extreme displays of religious devotion, in Georgetown, Malaysia. (AFP)
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A Hindu devotee's tongue is pierced before he make his way towards the Murugan temple during the colourful annual Thaipusam festival. (AFP)
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A young Hindu devotee carries a "kavadi" (a wooden frame) as she makes her way towards the Murugan temple in Georgetown on the Malaysian island of Penang. (AFP)
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Hindu devotees carry milk pots on their heads for offering as they walk toward the Murugan temple during the colourful annual Thaipusam festival, one of the world's most extreme displays of religious devotion, in Malaysia. (AFP)
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A Hindu devotee prays near a river, before a pilgrimage during the Thaipusam festival outside Kuala Lumpur January. (Reuters)
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A Hindu devotee prays near a river, before a pilgrimage to the sacred Batu Caves Temple outside Kuala Lumpur. (Reuters)
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Bystanders take photos as a devotee pulls a chariot with hooks pierced into his back during the Thaipusam festival in Singapore. (Reuters)
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