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Six minor girls in central India, some of them reported to be as young as five, were allegedly stripped and paraded naked as part of a village ritual to summon rain.
Social media videos reportedly showed young girls walking nude with a wooden shaft on their shoulders, which had a frog tied to it, in the drought-hit Baniya village in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh state.
Villagers believe the ritual will appease the rain god and bring rainfall to the region, which had been seeing paddy crops dying due to drought.
The incident was reported on September 5, and India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights is looking for a report on it from the administration of Damoh district, where the village is based.
Madhya Pradesh police said they had not received any formal complaint about the ritual, but said they had opened an investigation into it.
"Action will be taken if we find the girls were forced to walk naked," Damoh superintendent of police DR Teniwar told the Press Trust of India news agency.
The minors were accompanied by a few women who were chanting and singing devotional songs (bhajans) praising the god of rain , The Indian Express reported.
"We believe that this will bring in rains," they can be heard saying in the video.
As part of the ritual, those women collect raw food grains from villagers during this procession and then cook food for "bhandara" (group feast) at a local temple, the Indian newspaper reported.
S. Krishna Chaitanya, Damoh district collector, said the girls' parents had consented to the ritual and had even participated in it.
"In such cases, the administration can only make the villagers aware about the futility of such superstition and make them understand that such practices don't yield desired results," Chaitanya said.
Newsweek has contacted Chaitanya for comment.
There are number of rituals adopted by different cultures in India to bring rain, especially in farming areas heavily dependent on it.
Other rituals include marrying frogs and donkeys, or singing songs to praise the rain gods. Some communities hold yagnas, a kind of Hindu fire ritual.
There have also been incidents where young children are caked in mud, nearly naked with folded hands, asking the Gods to have mercy and make it rain, according to India Times.
In parts of Uttar Pradesh, the women of the village are asked to plow the fields at night naked, in order to for the gods to bring rain, the paper reported.

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Cancer, It's Time to Manifest Your Dreams
It's that time of year again: ESPN the Magazine 's Body Issue is here!
Twenty-three athletes dared to bare for the ninth edition, which launched as a digital experience Wednesday; the magazine will be available on newsstands nationwide this Friday.
The full list of featured athletes includes A.J. Andrews , Javier Báez , Kacey Bellamy , Brent Burns , Brianna Decker , Meghan Duggan , Julian Edelman, Ezekiel Elliott , Kirstie Ennis , Julie Ertz , Zach Ertz , Ezekiel Elliott, Malakai Fekitoa , Gus Kenworthy , Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson , Monique Lamoureux-Morando , Nneka Ogwumike , Joe Thornton , Alex Rigsby , Ashley Wagner , Michelle Waterson , Novlene Williams-Mills and Caroline Wozniacki .
ESPN the Magazine granted E! News a preview of 12 of the 23 sports stars:
This year, the issue's theme is "Every Body Has a Story." The roster features a wide-ranging list of athletes, including a breast cancer survivor (Williams-Mills) and a war veteran (Ennis). Báez, meanwhile, is also the first cover athlete ever to be filmed using iPhone 7 Plus in Portrait mode.
The magazine recognizes athletes from all over the world, from New Zealand to the United States.
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Credit: Courtesy Serge Sorokko Gallery/Glitterati Editions
Unseen photos provide a sensitive look at America's early 'working girls'
Dita Von Teese is a burlesque performer, model and author. This is an edited extract from her foreword to "Working Girls: An American Brothel, Circa 1892" by Robert Flynn Johnson.
Women in sexual professions have always distinguished themselves from other women, from the mores of the time, by pushing the boundaries of style. The most celebrated concubines and courtesans in history set the trends in their respective courts. The great dames of burlesque -- Sally Rand, Gypsy Rose Lee -- boasted a signature style on- and offstage, reflecting broader-than-life personalities.
Dita von Teese on the eternal allure of a well-dressed gentleman
Given that photography was still an emerging technology, an emerging creative medium, when these "working girls" posed for William Goldman in the 1890s at a Reading, Pennsylvania brothel, the entire exercise transcends their initial business liaison. The instantaneous concept of click-and-shoot was still decades away. To be photographed required sitting very still. The women featured in Goldman's collection obviously caught his eye. Not just anyone is asked to be the subject of artistic documentation.
Courtesy Serge Sorokko Gallery/Glitterati Editions
The local photographer and his anonymous muses appear to straddle an artful titillation, at times striving toward Degas nudes and at another, more in the spirit of a strip and tease. There is a beauty in even the most mundane moments.
Among Goldman's models, my own gaze zeroed in on the striped stockings and darker shades of their risqué brassieres. These ladies of Reading, Pennsylvania, might not have had the wealth of Madame du Barry, celebrated mistress of Louis XV of France, or the fame and freedom of a silver-screen sex goddess such as Mae West. But they sought to elevate their circumstances, to feel lovelier and more fashionable, with a daring pair of knickers.
Courtesy Serge Sorokko Gallery/Glitterati Editions
To feel special is fundamental to the human condition. Few opportunities outshine a sense of specialness than when an artist asks to record your looks, your beauty. Under the right circumstances, to be the object of admiration -- of desire -- to be what is essentially objectified is not only flattering. It can also provide a shot of confidence and a sense of strength and power and even liberation, however lasting or fleeting.
Courtesy Serge Sorokko Gallery/Glitterati Editions
For these working girls who were already going against the drudgery of toiling in a factory or as a domestic, who were surviving in a patriarchal world by their wits and sexuality, the opportunity to sit for Goldman was very likely not only thrilling. It was also empowering.
One can only imagine the mutual giddiness prevailing among them all, too, at the possible outcome from all these lost afternoon shoots. In a singular image from this collection appears Goldman striking a pose as proud as a peacock. It's one of stock masculinity in the canons of classic portraiture (though usually in military uniform), and like his muses, presented in all his naked glory. By sharing in the objectivity of the process, Goldman basks in the specialness his models must have felt. By stepping around the lens, he becomes a true confidante.
Courtesy Serge Sorokko Gallery/Glitterati Editions
It suggests a balance of power between artist and muse, man and woman -- at least behind closed doors. Their collective decision to strip and strut for the camera reveals a shared lack of shame for the body beautiful and, in that, a shared, albeit secret, defiance of cultural mores.
Courtesy Serge Sorokko Gallery/Glitterati Editions
By all accounts from curator Robert Flynn Johnson's devoted research on this once-lost collection, Goldman seems to have kept his treasured collection as a personal trove. As a successful photographer of weddings and social events, it was most certainly not in his interest for the public to know about his private creative pursuits.
Courtesy Serge Sorokko Gallery/Glitterati Editions
The brothel was a necessary evil in town, where men with certain desires visited women who would oblige. In this case, it was the desire of a man to capture the beauty and sensuality of the women he befriended. There is much to learn and (most of all!) take pleasure in with this discovery.
As these lost photographs illustrate more than a century later, one period's "social problem" is another's cultural revelation.
"Working Girls: An American Brothel, Circa 1892" by Robert Flynn Johnson, with a foreword by Dita Von Teese, is out now.
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