Hindu penitent on a high swing, a Dakambari fakir, and other Indian mystics.
Hindu penitent on a high swing at a festival for the goddess Bhagavathi, a Dakambari fakir holding burning coals on a metal plate, and a rich penitent who rolled on the ground for 30 miles. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.
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