Remarkable video has emerged from a remote southern India location of villagers breaking into a fight using cow-dung as weapon of choice. <br /><br />The villagers amass vast mounds of cow-dung and flatten them in an earmarked space in the village. <br /><br />Then the men strip down to their shorts and walk into the four-feet deep bed of cow-dung and pick up fights with each other. <br /><br />They roll massive balls of cow-dung and hurl it on each other. The ritual takes place a few days after Diwali and usually falls in late October. <br /><br />The cow-dung fights, which critics dub as India’s answer to La Tomatina, take place in the village of Gomatapura, sandwiched between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. <br /><br />The event is, however, as different as a tomato is from a heap of cow dung. <br /><br />There are no bursts of energy or adrenaline-pumping action. The key act involves patiently rolling up a huge ball of cow-dung and then aiming it at your victim, preferably catching him unawares - as can be seen in this video.<br /> <br />A village elder Shivappa explains that the exalted tradition has been nurtured for the last 250 years. <br /><br />Centuries ago a few villagers had run over their ox carts on a sacred idol while shifting cow-dung, a traditional manure, from a dump yard to their farm. <br /><br />The idol started bleeding and the residing deity cursed the villagers to fight among themselves for eternity with the matter jettisoned by the cows. <br /><br />After the villagers begged for forgiveness, the deity calmed down and said he would be around to bless them if they seriously fought with cow-dung once a year without fail.
