These men have vowed to do the complete route rolling on the ground behind the cart. This strenuous form of self-castigation was practised for the first time during the temple festival of the goddess Kamakshi in Hamm in the early 1990s. Rolling men can be found participating in processions in a number of places, but the Kamakshi temple, now situated in the industrial area of Hamm, still attracts most of them. (Hamm-Uentrop, June 2002)