A husband and wife from the Vannar community went to wash clothes at the river next to a large hill.

They attempted to soothe the baby using iron tongs and noticed "small wounds on the mother's right chest."

Historical accounts say that the goddess transformed into a girl child when she saw the baby inside the trough the next morning.

The goddess appeared in a dream and instructed them to hold a festival, where they would find her idol embedded in a neem tree.

On the day of the village festival, everyone followed the Kongu custom of taking green flour and headed north.