Hong Kong's 'villain hitting' ritual draws crowds


A practitioner performs a "villain hitting" ceremony as customers watch under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong. - AP

HONG KONG, March 14 (AP): People holding a grudge may have found a way to release it in Hong Kong’s "villain hitting” ritual.

To relieve themselves from a bad mood, customers paid ritual practitioners who work underneath the Canal Road Flyover in Causeway Bay, one of the city's shopping districts, and watched them bashing an image of their target with a shoe.

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