One can see hanged, in front of new
house or shop
or tied with the machine or vehicle
newly bought,
in some Indian ethnicity, strand
of cotton strings
pierced through a lemon and few
green chillies.
It is evil eye charm, to prevent effects
of evil power
and wishes of the jealous people may
not prosper.
I remember, as a child I used to
live in a village.
We children of the village,
whenever felt unwell,
by the respective guardians usually
were taken
to ‘Kanhai’ who lived there, a
saint like person.
Two lengthy thin sticks of an used
jute broom
measured a span and four fingers,
Kanhai took.
Slashed using his thumb nails, from
that point,
swept quite a few times, over head
of ill child.
Chanting some mantra, he did the
black magic,
people of village had belief and
mostly felt relief.
When I grew up young only then
could realize
and revealed, behind that, what
could be the myth.
It was because of villagers illiteracy
and poverty
and no government hospital was in
the vicinity.
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