A woman holding a basket returns after offering prayers during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. Dressed with colourful clay masks, the mediums participate in dances while villagers offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining blessing from the deities in the annual Shikali festival. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A priest carrying a traditional musical instrument arrives to perform rituals during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Children are silhouetted as they run along the hills during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A medium sits inside the temple as he waits for his friends to perform rituals during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Devotees holding sugarcane sticks run along a hill as part of a Shikali festival ritual at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Devotees chew sugarcane sticks as part of a Shikali festival ritual at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A hand of a priest is pictured during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A medium sits behind his mask which represents a deity, while preparing for the deity's procession as part of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A priest holding "Chirag", a traditional lamp, takes part during a deity's procession as part of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A mask of a deity is hung on a wall as a medium prepares for the deity's procession during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A medium prepares for a deity's procession during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A medium prepares for a deity's procession during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Priests take part during a deity's procession as part of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A medium dressed as a deity jumps during a trance at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Devotees hold their umbrellas upside down to collect blessed rice sprinkled during a deity's procession as part of the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A medium dressed as a deity jumps during a trance at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





Devotees gather around the mediums during the Shikali festival at Khokana village in Lalitpur, Nepal October 19, 2015. (Photo by Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters)





A Nepalese Hindu devotee dresses as a deity as he prepares to participate in festivities at the Shikali Temple during celebrations for the Shikali Jatra festival in the village of Khokana, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, on October 19, 2015. Local villagers, who normally do not celebrate the country's most famous festival of Dashain, celebrate the Shikali Jatra each year. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)