A clip is being shared on social media showing a man and a woman undergoing a ritual. The video is being circulated with the claims suggesting that it depicts niyog (a mating ritual), in which a husband is willingly making his wife undergo this practice with the Hindu priest.
Sharing the video, the handle Shaveta Meena Adv wrote, “A husband is getting his wife to undergo niyog with the priest right in front of his eyes. You won’t find such ‘beauty’ anywhere else. Fun for the priests, victory to Manuwad.” (Archived link)
This video is also being widely shared on the Instagram platform, with one claiming that a woman was unable to conceive, so her husband allowed her to conceive a child through a priest. (Archived link)
Another user shared the video with a caption, “Progress of Hindu Rashtra.” (Archived link)
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Fact Check
In our fact-check research, we extracted keyframes from the video and performed a reverse image search. During this, we found that the same video from a close angle uploaded on the YouTube page VIP 168 on May 20, 2024. The video has a title written in Khmer script which says 20 May 2024. (Archived link)
Another video of the same ritual is also uploaded on this channel.
The five-minute video depicts a ritual involving a man and a woman being performed in a home by a shaman. We noticed that the shaman is wearing a skullcap, and the women featured in the video are wearing hijabs, one of which is completely covered in a burqa, suggesting that this is some kind of Islamic ritual.
Further, we found an Indonesian channel Gubes Mamaz Karyo, where the thumbnails of two videos featured the same man and woman seen in the ritual clip. In both thumbnails, the man and woman are wearing the same attire as in the viral clip.
On the channel, we found many videos of various types of rituals.
We scrutinized this YouTube handle and found that the shaman and the woman adorning a burqa visible in the claimed video also appear in several other videos on this channel.
Additionally, in a video uploaded to the VIP 168 channel, a man wearing a bandana is visible at the 1:53 minutes timeframe. This man also appears on the Gubes Mamaz Karyo’s videos. He is featured in the channel’s display picture and header as well. His name is Mama/Mamaz Karyo. According to one article, he is a paranormal practitioner.
Mamaz Karyo is a paranormal practitioner from Indonesia. He has a team with whom many videos of occult rituals have been shared on his channel. We did not find the claimed clip here, but we found two videos with thumbnails featuring the same ritual recipient from the viral clip. This clearly indicates that the clip is not from India or related Hinduism practice, but from Indonesia.
In conclusion, the video from the Indonesia showing an occult ritual performed by paranormal practitioner is being falsely attributed to Hinduism, with false claims suggesting that it shows a woman undergoing niyog practice to conceive a child through a priest. The claims attributing the ritual video to Hinduism are false and misleading.
| Claim | The viral shows a Hindu niyog ritual in which a woman is made to conceive a child through a priest. |
| Claimed by | Social media users |
| Fact check | This video is not related to Hinduism and does not depict any niyog rituals involving a Hindu priest. It is from Indonesia and shows an occult/paranormal ritual performed by a paranormal practitioner. |
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