sweetmeats

Pilgrims purchase coconuts, sweetmeats, flowers, and incense for their ritualistic offerings.

Gifting new clothes and sweetmeats is a key part of the celebrations.

So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o’clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.

At their feet were piled betel leaves, rice and a host of sweetmeats.

Some spirits live in trees, and the mightiest ficus trees are wrapped in multicolored sashes, with incense and sweetmeats placed among the roots.