Gadhika is a ritual dance performed by Adiya tribes of Wayanad district. The art from is meant to care ailments. The performance is also done as part of a ritual for having a safe delivery of child. Gadhika begins with the principal performer invoking lord Siva for his help to cure the patients. Central to the ritual is the belief that a person falls sick when the gods are angry. The prayers are in a strange dialect, which has a pronounced Kannada diction. Once Lord Siva was brought down to earth and he was pleades by the invocations of the worshippers. The other gods, goddesses were enrolled by the performance. These gods include Chamundi, Maniamma, Malankali (Siva) and Karinkali. Simultaneously other actors dressed in colourful costumes also move centralistic which is titled with a small structure that resembles a temple.

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