We had just reached the De Mel home when Dan telephoned. He told me, excitedly, "I have learned of a fire-walking ceremony in Kolonnawa village
Kataragama in the deep South, where thousands of people congregate in adoration and worship, is known world over for its sanctity.
Heat emanating from the bed of embers is unbearable even from afar. Flames darting up occasionally light up the large crowd
Leonard Feinberg PhD was a visiting Fulbright Professor to the University of Ceylon in 1956. While he was there he witnessed a major annual religious ceremony.
Since the age of eight, Sarath M. Mohotti has been following in the footsteps of his father Martin Mohotti, who was the first Sinhalese to perform the fire-walking ritual at Kataragama.