One of the strangest parts of the funeral rites in India takes place when the corpse is carried to its cremation. It's carried in a sitting position and dressed in its wedding garments. In India, there's a sacred tree called the Puna tree. It's used for prayer, but in a not-so-prayerful way. At least, not for an old woman named Shalabi of Darjeeling. For her form of prayer in wishing for a grandson was to run around the Puna tree, which she did some one million times. The boy was born, but it took messengers three months to reach the woman with the news. So her last 200,000 laps around the tree were completely wasted. Believe It or Not!
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