For Babies in India, a 30-Foot Plunge for Good Luck

How far would you go to show your religious faith? Many religions have some weird rituals. In India, some families living in a rural area are willing to  throw their babies from the surface  to be caught in a stretched bed sheet about 30 feet below. In addition, who do like this ritual are both Hindus and Muslims. This ritual is long popular in Maharashtra and Karnataka States, they have done almost 700 years, to a time when children's death rate was high, medical knowledge was weak, and families had few places to found help. Legend has it that a saint advised people whose babies were dying to build a shrine and drop the sick children from the surface to a sheet For their children cured of the disease. Villagers believe that the ritual brings the child long life and good luck, and preserve that it does no harm. The ritual continues throughout the year, and they throw  babies even their age  two months.  “We do not support this superstitious practice,” said G. Mohanty, a media adviser at the commission. “It is against the interest of the children. They may be really scared, and nobody knows how it affects their psyche.”. Finally, we did many thing to our children to avoid Illness, but we shouldn’t believe what our parents believe because some rituals are stupid and we said these our tradition.

This link show you how they throw the children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbOsEmHzq1c#action=share

work cited

Venkataraman, Ayesha. "For Babies in India, a 30-Foot Plunge for Good Luck." The New York Times. The New York Times, 28 July 2016. Web. 03 Aug. 2016.