Interested in knowing what the future holds for you. Go to Vaitheeswaran koil, a temple town 350 Kms from Madras to met the special class of astrologers, known as Nadi Josiers. . 

These astrologers have a bundle of dried palm leaves on which are written the future of many a citizen of the world. Once a leave pertaining to the life of the individual who has called on the astrologer is found it will give all details like the name of the person, names of his parents and the no. of sisters and brothers he/she has.  Prediction from palm leaves is considered very authentic and is practiced by a few in South India 

  Bone setters of Puttur

For most of the people the world over when bone sustains a fracture the first action will be to contact an orthopedic surgeon. But for some it is the bone setters of Putter who will set the bones better than the surgeon. For more than two generations people have faith in this bone setters . According to one who practices this now, it was a hunter who brought home a rabbit that was hurt and had a broken bone. To make its stay comfortable he collected some leaves from the forest and made it a s a bed for the rabbit. After some days to his surprise the rabbit started to limb and soon was perfectly alright. The hunter realised that the leaves he had collected from the forest had some medicinal effects and tried using it on human patients. The fractures were cure had soon he became popular. His off spring learnt the trick from him and practice even today. Some of them are now qualified surgeons, but they still  practice the medicine they leant from their parents and grand parents.