VILLUPURAM:Nearly 50 human skulls, reportedly used by a sorcerer for a pooja in the dry area of a lake near Melmalayanur, created panic among the villagers and devotees, who came for the New Moon Day pooja at Angalamman temple on Friday evening.
Devotees and villagers had come to the place of worship and were about to bathe in the lake near the temple, when shock and fear gripped them on seeing the skulls lying around.
The skulls were strewn on a dry area of the lakebed.
The devotees scattered and ran in fear, some of them abandoning the idea of taking a dip in the water body, before entering the temple precincts.
As majority of the devotees fled the place, the rest pulled themselves up and mustered the courage to narrate the sighting of skulls to the temple management staff, who, in turn, informed the Melmalayanur police.
On hearing this, police went to the place and removed the bones from the spot.
They suspected sorcerers to have conducted the rituals with the skulls dug up from the graveyard, as there was mud on all of them, However, police said they would investigate to find the sorcerers involved in the use of the skulls and also brought them from the grave for their rituals.
According to sources, the Angalaman temple is famous because of the special poojas conducted every month on the New Moon Day.
It is on this day, a lakh devotees and people across the State and other parts of the country arrive at the temple to take part in the event. Also, sorcerers from various places come for the pooja and they would conduct some special poojas in the surrounding areas of the temple.