Sage · Shaiva · South India
Karaikkal Ammaiyar
A Tamil woman saint of the sixth century, one of the sixty-three Nayanars, who asked Shiva for the body of a ghost, walked to Tiruvalangadu on her head and sang his dance there.
Sources: Replete with historical facts: Thiruvalangadu Vataranyeshwarar temple, The Hindu; A banyan forest where Shiva won dance contest against Kali, New Indian Express (Chithra Madhavan, 2016) · see Karaikkal Ammaiyar's web