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Superstitious Folly

When robberies and other crimes happen in India they seem to always blame it on supernatural baddies.

"There is an evil eye that has been cast on us. So we decided to take recourse to spiritual means to ward it off," Gouri Shankar Sengupta, one of the organisers of the wedding between a banyan tree and a peepul, a kind of fig tree, said on Monday.

Indians "marry" sacred trees to ward off evil eye