In what has got to be on of the most vile and disturbing things ever put to print, a man in eastern India was arrested for his unconventional and downright insane method of curing the common cold in children.
50-year old Jamun Yadav, who considers himself to be a demigod of the Hindu faith, believes he can channel and transfer divine energy through his feet, which has lead to him standing on the necks and throats of young children suffering from your average run-of-the-mill cold.
Santosh Singh, who served as a spokesman for the police on the case, stated that the parents who allowed this self-described holy man were most likely unaware of his methods. When asked about them, the guru claimed that he was merely speaking for God, and as such needs no other defense.
Although an isolated incident, it serves as a grim reminder of the dangerous religious traditions observed by many Hindus in India, many of which are done so for the health of their children. One such ritual involves throwing infants off of a fifty foot tower, a tradition thought to bring good health and luck to the child throughout his or her life.
The children are tossed from the tower onto a tightly stretched sheet below, where they seemingly bounce safely and are then handed to their mothers. This bizarre and dangerous ritual, which has been practiced for 500 years, has yet to count any fatalities, but that hasn’t stopped critics from deriding it as unsafe.
The ritual is typically performed by Hindus and Muslims alike in the Indian district of Solapur, which is located in Maharashtra, as well as smaller outlying villages. Before the event happens, the parents of the babies being take a vow at a temple.
A more recent incident highlights the case of Nek Singh, an Indian guru who employs brutal beatings to “cure any ailment,” including cancer. Oddly enough, all of his “patients” were women. The treatment involved savage kicks and punches, and even standing on the head of the individual. The guru proclaimed that the goddess Kali possessed him, enabling him with the power to heal through physical violence.
Based out of the Etah district of Uttar Pradesh in India, police eventually raided the village, but the self-proclaimed spiritual healer managed to evade capture. Although his whereabouts are unknown, I would be surprised if he and his neck stompin’ buddy are enjoying a cold beer somewhere in hiding.
Another similarly disturbing tradition is the practice of burying disabled children alive up to their necks for six hours during a solar eclipse for approximately six hours. This is seemingly done to offset the negative effects that are thought to be caused by a prior solar eclipse.
Although genuine testing has been done to test the relationship between mud therapy and the eclipse, no conclusions have been drawn, despite many mothers stating their children have experienced improved mobility after undergoing the terrifying ritual.
Hammer
Well said!!!! Thank You
deg
omg i felt so scared while watching those images, i mean, you could see the fear in those children's eyes
akos
thats really sad, how can you do that to a little child? Won't their bones break or what?
anonymous
I would love for them 2 come to america and we can perform a few rituals on them "THE AMERICAN WAY!"
US Army Vet
/facepalm
Please stop speaking for America. We have enough ignorant people saying what the "American way" is without more imbeciles spouting off with idiocy.
space warp
The video was not that close up you coled not see fer in anyone's eyes at that dis tans it was still a stupid thing to do . stupid illiterate people do stupid things Hindu or Christan
a Yakkity Yak
I believe their tradition of bathing en masse in the same river where they throw the ashes of their dead and slum dwellers defecate and urinate in is more disturbing, imho
lynda chabane
This is no more than child abuse……and using the excuse of Religion is utter rubbish!!!! What the hell are the Governors doing about this????…turning a blind eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Miguel Leiva-Gomez
This is revolting…
Cory Carmichael
weird
Debb Lovett
They burned their women alive with their husband passed away 100 years ago as it was their cultural traditional…the Westerns successful changed their traditional …they have stopped burn their women…yet they are still doing brutal treatments on women and children!!! this is abuse sicko….gotta stop them now
vijay Abrook
Hi debb,
Whatever you said is not true at all. Just by seeing one incidence( which is shock for us also) you can not dafame whole Indians and you can not malign their images. Here, in India we treat each and every woman as goddess and each child is like a flower for us. These are just few uneducated people in India who've been doing this for many years. About the role of government they are trying hard to overcome such practises and hope in coming years you will not hear our name in any such case.
Pesare Shab
تو خریت تکی.
Fatima Nima
Jesus what the hell did I just read????????o_O
Glenn Mc
STOP CHILD ABUSE!
Rachid Amnay
انا لله وانا اليه راجعون.
Hamed Aziziyan
عجب
Marleni Ureña
LOCOS, ESE VIEJO CON LOS PIES TODO SUCIO Y FEO POR ESOS PIES QUE BENDICIÓN VA A SALIR SI NO MUGRE, JESÚS SANA LIBERTA Y DA VIDA ETERNA A EL ES QUE HAY QUE PEDIRLE NO A UN HOMBRE!
KhanneaSuntzu
I am a peaceful women, but Goddess never show me these things a meter from my hands, because I would kill and I would maim with just my fingers.
khalid maatouk
There is one thing and just one thing ,I can not sustain..hearing a child crying…
Riyo
Islam is love is that man a Muslim no but thanks for the lie
Mohammed ditto
Fake photos!
Shanti
This is abuse and very real I’ve seen it up close a literal hell for the babies what a sick thing to do its inhumane period lord shivaya will punish u for ur crimes against humanity upon the most vulnerable for ur selfish behavior
vivud
Asad’s work critiqued the notion that there were universal characteristics of ritual to be found in all cases. Catherine Bell has extended this idea by shifting attention from ritual as a category, to the processes of “ritualization” by which ritual is created as a cultural form in a society. Ritualization is “a way of acting that is designed and orchestrated to distinguish and privilege what is being done in comparison to other, usually more quotidian, activities”.