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Ashura is famous for the people practising self-flagellation but Ashura is more than that. For the Shia people, the Day of Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram and commemorates the killing of Hussein and his 72 relatives by the Umayyad caliphate in Karbala, Iraq. In Iran, this is the time for unique celebrations all over the country.
In Gorgan, these men have gathered to share the Narzi in a specially decorated room, the Takiyeh. In some places, women also have their separate private room. Clerics are invited to deliver sermons. The elderly believe that the Narzi also has healing powers.