Thank you for the link, that was very interesting. I wonder to what extent this ritual has been formalized, since I didn’t see any reaction at all from the presumed penitent, and there seemed to be several attendants present to insure things did not go beyone bounds.
Nevertheless, quite bizarre, to our sensibilites.
A sharpshooter puts a couple of bullets in a certain area, when hospitalized, a catheter is inserted after the surgery to remove the remnants that the bullets didn’t take out