Villagers hold pooja in hospital to take back ‘soul’ of dead relative

Jaipur | Saturday | 9th March, 2019

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“Basically, everyone is afraid of black magic and such tantrik rituals. They said they had come to ‘collect the soul’ of their son who had died in that ward. “We do not encourage such things, but also do not want to trouble a family in grief,” said a doctor from the hospital. The patients also did not seem to object to the rituals.The villagers said that their son had met with an accident and was brought to JLN Hospital where he died. “We took his body for funeral but his soul was left here in hospital, and now we have came to take his soul and will keep the soul in a corner of our house,” said the nephew of the deceased..