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Period: 1319 to
how it all started
This tradition started at a local Indian shrine (Baba Umer Durga), it is said this crazy tradition has been going for at least 700 years -
Period: 1319 to
how it works
This tradition is done is both Hindi and Muslims faiths in India. the babies are taken to the top of their local shrine about 50 feet high and the infant is released and caught by men holding a sheet down below
the infants are tossed at the age of 2 months, before their birth prayers are said promising they will toss their baby for good luck.
The tossing is committed by experienced devotees of the shrine, then safely returned to their anxious families -
Period: 1319 to
legend of the toss
Legend has it that a saint advised people whose babies were dying to build a shrine and drop the ailing infants from the roof to show their trust in the almighty. When they did so, the story goes, the babies were miraculously cradled to safety in a hammock-like sheet that appeared in midair. -
Period: 1319 to
problems
here we have a outsider who does not believe is the Indians "superstition practice" “We do not support this superstitious practice,” said G. Mohanty, a media adviser at the commission. “It is against the interest of the children. They may be really scared, and nobody knows how it affects their psyche.”
He has no right to try and stop a successful religious practice that has been going for 100 upon hundreds of years. -
Period: 1319 to
info
The Indians to this current day claim no child has been injured once in any of their tosses.
The toss takes place annually once a year, local families will have their children tossed one after another.
The priests do not actually look as to where they are throwing the infant, it is just dropped. -
Period: to
21st century problems
The practice came under fire in 2009, when a widely circulated video recorded at the Baba Umer Dargah, a shrine in Solapur, Maharashtra, prompted the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights to intervene. The commission investigated and ordered that the baby-tossing be stopped. so as of 2010 families have had to toss their babies in secrecy to hide from local authorities