India is certainly a country full of impossible things. The wonders in our country stretch from being incredibly smart to be ultimately unexplainable. There are certain customs and age-old rituals which raises our eyebrows startled in wonder. Most of these crazy customs are limited to South India.
South India’s state which is of such kind is Karnataka, and especially, North Karnataka is literally a base for such rituals. Hailed as the home to some of the weirdest traditions of our country, this one such tradition is “burying children up to the neck to cure their physical disabilities. This tradition is generally carried out through the span of the solar eclipse.
Before sunrise pits are dug sufficiently deep so that the neck of a child can just come out.The children are then kept inside the pit for a few hours.The number of hours may range from an hour to continuously six hours at a stretch.Many parents believe that disability in children occurs due to the negative effects of the solar eclipse.
Hence it can only be cured by exposing them to the sun during a solar eclipse.Putting them in the mud because mud is considered to be holy.Some of the parents even claim to have their children successfully treated by this ritual. While the whole world is keenly lost in gazing at the eclipse, many people in this place do this, they walk to the Saath Gumbaz in Mominpur, near Gulbarga and perform the ritual.
Locals even have the concrete proofs of this, they show their children who were born with disabilities now doing healthy.