India: A farmer cuts out his tongue as an offering to a deity

A Indian farmer Police said he was in critical condition on Sunday after cutting his tongue to perform a sacrifice at a Hindu temple.

The act of the 40-year-old man caused panic among people who thronged the famous temple in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.

The man, along with his wife, would take the knife and perform a ritual before cutting Language Put it at the temple gate, police officer Abhilash Tiwari told AFP.

The man was taken to hospital.

His wife told the police about this.He sacrificed“His tongue is to appease a deity, without describing it,” Tiwari said.

Self-destruction and even Human sacrifices One more problem IndiaA large section of the population has superstitions.

Two such incidents took place in two states last year Indians. Two men under the age of 20 cut out their tongues and sacrificed them to God.

In 2020, A Hindu priest He cut off the head of a peasant and offered the head as a sacrifice, claiming that he had dreamed that a deity told him to do so.

AFP