The Bhairava worshippers are famous for their black color
dress. The dress code of the sanyasi of Bhairava sect include dark black shirt,
bone garlands, kapala (skull), sula (trident) and damaruka (hourglass drum).
Bhairava tantric wear disheveled hair.
They decorate the hair with white color flowers.
On the forehead they make crescent moon using sacred ash.
Earrings made of chank shell are worn and they are decorated
with red color flowers.
Necklace is made of white marble beads.
The body is covered with a single piece black gown like
shirt.
The tantric wears channavira, hara, vata, armlets,
katisutra, anklets etc – all these and other ornaments are made of bone beads.
Tantric worshippers of South India wear
Silambu, a hollow circular tube with small bells, made of metal, which in turn
produce a characteristic sound while walking.