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It takes a lot to bring out my own maternal instincts but this little wolverine kid slays me! Makes me want to howl at the moon and bear a litter of wolf cubs. Of course the poor kid’s going to grow up with doctors and other idiots calling him “diseased” instead of completely adorable… [...]
Some Desi ghosts and spirits share some characteristics with vampires such as having the capacity to drain out a person’s life-force and to generally carry about causing trouble for human beings…although some can be trained to behave…
Djinn:
In Islamic mythology, the Djinn are fiery spirits, one of which was Iblis. From the Arabic junna, “angry, possessed.” [...]
here’s some childhood t.v. Doordarshan nostalgia for you…personally I never watched this series but I used to read the story-book about the corpse hanging from a tree that King Vikram needs to collect for a tantric to use in his magickal workings… you need to watch the clip halfway to see the ghost flying and [...]
If you haven’t heard of the mythic tale of Nagamandala…the tale of a snake who falls in love with a woman and seduces her in the form of a her husband…then you probably weren’t as surprised as I was to read of an actual woman, Bimbala Das, who fell in love with a snake, and [...]
In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called vimanas. These fall into two cate- gories: (l) manmade craft that resemble airplanes and fly with the aid of birdlike wings, and (2) unstreamlined structures that fly in a mysterious manner and are generally not made by human [...]
BANGALORE, India — Revered by some in her village as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs was undergoing surgery Tuesday that will hopefully leave her with a normal body.
The girl named Lakshmi is joined at the pelvis to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing [...]
even the street kids speak more languages than I do! We may have more poor kids on the street than in many other countries but we have the smartest damn street kids you’ll find anywhere…these kids have style.
I kid you not. This happened in May, 2001
Residents of the Indian capital, Delhi, are reported to be panicking after a series of attacks by mysterious creatures, described as “man-monkeys”.At least one person is said to have died and 35 others have been injured in attacks in recent days or while attempting to flee in [...]
well that certainly sounds like more fun for the parents than for the babies…
MyFoxNY.com — One by one they went. A priest in India hurled babies over the edge of a balcony to a blanket below.
What probably seems shocking to you is actually a centuries-old tradition.
Superstitious moms and dads flock to the temple [...]
BIDAR: It was a common thing that Muslim rulers raised tombs for themselves and also for their near and dear ones but a tomb for a dog is something many would not have come across.Especially, Bidar is bestowed with many such magnificent tombs belonging to the rulers of the erstwhile Bahmani and Barid Shahi dynasties, [...]
Oct. 7, 2007
KOLKATA: The scare of ghosts is haunting 345 Class V students of Degri Girls High School in Domjur, Howrah. On Saturday, the school authorities were forced to suspend classes for the day after terror-struck students claimed seeing poltergeist activity.
Just before classes began, a rumour spread among Class V students that many of [...]
loook into my eyes…..
hahahaha….psychedelic religious programs…
I came accross the strange tale of this Spanish Saint, St Francis Xavier,( affectionately called “Jassu”….as in Jassu Jaissi Koi Nahin..lol..)who had lived in India for ten years doing his good works till he died of fever. By that time he’d proved his metal as a Saint, miraculously raising a boy from the dead, [...]
Rats- Do you like them? Do you like them enough to eat their spit? Check out the clip and check out some people who do at the Karni Mata temple near Bikaner.
image from horizon
So the story goes like this:
How The Rats Became Holy
The story goes that Karni Mata once tried to restore the [...]
This news is exactly one year old (July 17, 2006) but is just too scrumptious not to be retold…
Owen Tomkinson was a British soldier who died of cholera in the northern Indian state of Bihar in 1906.Nothing unusual about that, but people of Ekbalnagar in Gaya town where Mr Tomkinson is buried, believe that his [...]
