Driven by Superstition, they dig out dead woman’s body

Ranchi: In a bizarre incident, a dead woman’s body was dug out from a Jharkhand village and buried elsewhere as the villagers believed the woman’s unnatural death might bring calamities to the place. Read More................Driven by superstition, they dig out dead woman’s body

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'Muddy lake' becomes pilgrim destination

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NAKALI: A dried-up and polluted lake in eastern India has become a major pilgrimage site attracting thousands of people a day after claims that its mud cures cancer and other diseases.

At the lake in Nakali village, 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of Kolkata, families smear each other in the dark, gluey "miracle mud", defying government attempts to prevent the site becoming a religious attraction. Read More................'Miracle lake' becomes pilgrim destination

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Keep a Black Dog to appease Planet Saturn

JAIPUR (Rajasthan): Going through a Shani Mahadasha? Or is it the Rahu and Ketu that are troubling you? Well, your neighbourhood jyotish might just ask you to keep a black dog.

Blame it on superstitions but there has been a sharp increase in the number of households in Jaipur opting for a black pup, all because their astrologer has told them to.

Astrologers feel the wrath of the Saturn is best avoided as it brings about a terrible phase in your life which lasts for either two and a half years, or, if you are very unlucky, for seven and a half years.

"Saturn is a powerful planet and ... can make a king a beggar," says Ganagaram Jyotish, an astrologer at Raja Park. Five of his clients have bought black pups in the past one year.

Read more.........................Shani side up for black dogs

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Superstitious doctors kill younger son to make elder 'smarter'

Here is another bizarre incident where blind faith and superstition won over science and logic & cost a 12-year-old boy his life.

The boy was killed by his own parents, Ashok and Pramila Malik - both of them doctors in Rohtak city in Haryana state of India - all because a tantrik (quack) told Pramila that she needs to transfuse the boy's blood into the body of his older brother to help him pass his medical exams.

Pramila and her Ashok made a cut in an artery in their younger son's neck and tried to transfuse the blood into the older one. Read more..........Doc parents kill younger son to make elder 'smarter'

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Suicide Shirt up for grabs

It may sound weird but it is true. People of Kataritola village in Hazaribagh district, 110 km from Ranchi, in Jharkhand state of India fought among themselves to get a piece of a shirt used by a youth to commit suicide.

The people were driven by a superstition that if any material used for hanging is kept in the house, it brings prosperity, the villagers said.

The incident happened in front of the police. A youth committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree using his shirt. Police reached the village and were trying to find out the reason behind the suicide after bringing down the body when the villagers started to fight for the shirt.

"There is strong belief in our society that if the material used in hanging is kept in the house, it brings prosperity and help to the family economically. It also helps in court cases. Considering the belief people tried to get a piece of the cloth," said Snehi Ram, a resident of the village.

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Family tries to revive Son's corpse

Another case of superstition & blind faith in India in which a family tried to revive the corpse of an Indian man who believed that a witch doctor could bring him back to life, three days after he died.

"Arun Majhi", aged 21, from Bhejapadar village in the eastern state of Orissa in India died after he was bitten by a snake while roaming in the jungle near his home for firewood and his grieving family buried him as per the customs of the family. But two days later, Majhi's mother dreamt that her son could come back to life. So the family dug his grave, exhumed the corpse and hired Natabara Sahu, a local witch doctor, who promised to do his best.

"I am sitting beside my son waiting for him to come back to life," Bibhisan Majhi, the Arun's father said as he fanned Arun's corpse, which was covered with a mosquito net.

But with Arun still dead two days after the witch doctor was hired, the family gave up and reburied him in Bhejapadar village in the eastern state of Orissa.

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To avoid deaths, Village lights an earthen lamp for 17 years

Now what would you call to this, a superstition or faith:

"An earthen lamp has been kept alight for 17 years in Chattisgarh's Lendhra Village in the belief that unnatural deaths will be kept at bay."

Kept at the rear of the main village temple that adjoins Radha Madhav Sankirtan Aashram, around 50 kilometers from Raigarh in Chattisgarh state of India, the lamp is revered for its perceived supernatural powers.

"I come here every year and try to bring my family also. This earthen lamp has been burning ever since I came here for the first time over 14 years ago. I love coming here," says Bharat Pandey, a devotee.

The daily expenses for keeping the lamp alight are borne by the villagers and through donations. according to Mukesh Kumar, the temple priest, the mustard oil-lit earthen lamp has been kept aglow by devotees from across Chattisgarh.

"For the past 17 years, this earthen lamp has been on. The villagers and all those who come from outside donate money for the work done in the temple. We have a free meal arrangement for the visitors," said Kumar.

The villagers have also employed two persons to take care of the earthen lamp.
A large number of people belonging to other villages also join the villagers of Lendhra Village to pay their respect to the lamp.

"Perhaps decades ago, on the auspicious day of Ram Navami the worship of lamp was started. Devotees claim to experience a sense of divinity and contentment every time they visit this temple and bow before the lamp. People chant hymns in the praise of the Almighty," said Shayam Lal, a temple staffer.

Most visitors believe that it is due to the grace of the earthen lamp that not one unnatural death has been reported in 17 years.

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Superstition keeps market closed for 20 days

Superstition, blind faith are very much part of the personality of a weak minded person. What would you call to a set of society which is having all these superstitions as part of their culture? It is really disappointing that people believing in all such superstitions still exist in this 21st century. What do you think, where all such people can be found? Of course, India.

Take the case of these people of Ahmedabad city in Gujarat state of India. Due to four-generation-old superstition, traders at a busy market in Gujarat's principal city kept their shutters down for 20 days after Holi ( a Hindu festival of colors), incurring a loss of around Indian Rs.50 million ( US $ 1.1 Million).

Among traders in "Laat Bazar" in the city, there is a strong belief that ,whosoever, does business in grains and other such commodities & reopens his shop "First" after the Holi festival break would lose someone in their family and go bankrupt.

So great is the fear that 40 years ago the market remained closed for as long as six months.

'This year the market remained closed till some prominent traders late Friday consulted an astrologer who suggested an auspicious time for reopening of the market.'

At 10 p.m. the traders performed a puja at a temple in the vicinity of the market and all shops were symbolically reopened. Real trading commenced only on Monday.

May God give some strength to these weak minded people!!!!!!!!

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Blind Faith

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Blind faith - that is the nature / property of almost every Indian. They believe any damn thing without any Rational or Logic. Now 2 days before, many people of Bombay oh! Mumbai in India Suddenly discovered that water on the Mahim beach at Bombay sea has turned Sweet. Oh God, water of sea is so salty ( it contains around 2.5 to 3.5 % salts as compared to less than 0.5% in normal drinking water) that you cannot drink it at all & if you drink one full glass of that water, then it is sufficient to give great damage to your Kidneys or other vital organs, but thousands of people on Mahim beach were seen drinking that water & hey it was not Salty but Sweet.

It seems God dwells in India only as all miracles happen over here only. Everybody was saying that it was due to miracle of God & people were taking that water to their homes also while filling it in bottles, plastic bags etc. etc. Now actually what happened was that, in the last few days, it had rained excessively in Bombay & all that water had drained into sea which had diluted water near seashore also, in that area. So that diluted water had reduced the salt content in that water. But Weird people of Bombay / India only believed that it was miracle of God. Science has no place in these people's mind who shall believe any & every damn thing in the world.

Yesterday it was also known that one 10 year girl is sitting in one village of India having fast for the last 7 days to please rain Gods to appear in their area ( Interestingly in India it actually happens that when there are floods in one area due to excessive rains, other areas go dry without any rain.) So that little girl did not ate anything & did not drank also anything for 7 days to please rain Gods. What happened was that all villagers started worshipping that Girl as Goddess only who shall bring rains for them. Nobody was seeing the plight of that Girl who has not eaten / drank anything for 7 days all together. Of course if she would have died without eating anything, these people would have praised her only that she died for a cause. Ultimately local administration / Police came into action & asked / gave her something to eat to break her fast. Yes, she ate all the fruits / milk etc. given to her, as she was feeling so hungry after having fast for 7 days.........Alas!!!!! rain is still elusive. So what you shall call such Weird people of India????????

Lo, yesterday only all Indian cities were abuzz that all God / Goddess Idols of clay / stone in Temples of India are drinking Milk, when devotees are offering it to God / Goddesses...... Lo, there were queues of devotees all over there in every temple of every city in India having a Pot / Glass of Milk in their hands.......Wonder, how much milk these God / Goddess Idols of clay / stone can Drink? It is nothing but believing in rumors or having blind faith in all such rumors. Actually what happened was that in one temple, some where in one city of India, one stone statue of God was absolutely dry due to summer heat in that place & when someone kept a spoon of milk near it, due to its dryness & Surface Tension phenomenon of science/physics, some milk was sucked in the stone. From there he started shouting all around, that God / Goddess is drinking milk........Lo that news was picked up by some TV News channel & broadcasted all around India.............Lo, all 1000 million people of India started believing that Gods / Goddess in temples are drinking milk........Lo, everybody started proceeding to the temples in every city in India having a Pot / Glass of Milk in their hands.............Oh, what shall happen to these Weird people of India who are so Irrational in their faiths / beliefs..........some times, I wonder how among these Weird people, such innovative software professional are born............God save India from these Weird people.........


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