Ouch! Thailand Celebrates Vegetarian Festival With Cheek Piercings Participants go above and beyond, piercing cheeks and tongues with an assortment of blades, spikes, skewers and other, more ...

In a procession to mark the vegetarian Festival on Thursday, devotees were seen with elaborately decorated skewers, swords, knives, and even the roots of plants piercing their cheeks and mouths.

Hundreds of men and women with metal skewers pierced through their cheeks and wearing costumes adorned with monkey skulls Saturday took part in a colourful parade on Borneo island. As they marched ...

As burning incense fills the air, devotees in trances force skewers and swords through their cheeks in ritualistic acts underpinning southern Thailand's colourful -- and seemingly painful ...

PHUKET: As burning incense fills the air, devotees in trances force skewers and swords through their cheeks in ritualistic acts underpinning southern Thailand's colourful -- and seemingly painful ...