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With the passage of time, with

migrations from the coast ,with the
erosion of kinship and relations, with
education in the upswing, with the
growth of contempt for the past, with
exposure to different communities and
groups , some of the established and
singular customs of the community are
facing slow extinction.

trends,General Administration, Law and

Order, Justice, Education,. Health ,
Tourist Spots etc. It is a text book that
helps him to administer the district.

One such custom on the wane

is VASAPPADI MARIYAL , a mock
ceremony enacted by the Murai
Mappilai and the Bride Grooma
custom that so struck the foreigners,
mind as strange, that they considered
necessary to make a mention of it in the
District Gazetteer.

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A District Gazetteer is almost a bible for

the British District officials to know the
History, Geography, People , Agriculture
and Education , Industries, Banking,
Trade and Commerce,
Communications,Economic

In the Tuticorin District Gazetteer ,

there is a reference to
the VASAPPADI MARIAL the
custom in marriage peculiar to us.

Since the Parathavars are all

converted to Catholicism and till date
the whole group was following the faith
that marriages will be celebrated only in
the church as it is the practice with
other castes also. But a queer secular
ceremony ritual is practiced by the
Parathavars, which is unusual to the
other Catholic communities. This ritual
is called VASAPPADI MARIYAL
literally picketing at the threshold. When
a Parathava girl is given in marriage to
other than the paternal aunts s son or

Regarding the verbal duel there is a

song. Sometimes the dueling song will
be sung and performed by two
substitutes for the contestants. This
mockery will come to an end with the
bride groom presenting a gold ring to
the Murai Mappillai.
I chanced upon one such song given to
me in 1994 by Late Thiru. D.A.
Jayaseelan Carvalho, Labour
Commissioner, Government of
Tamilnadu .I thought I should record the
song for two reasons. One to expose
the talent of our village poets and two,
to underline the mirth and tensionless
marriages of the past.

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performed. After the marriage in the
church, the young couple will be taken
in procession. Then they will remain in
the place which is allotted to them. In
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