Another case of superstition & blind faith in India in which a family tried to revive the corpse of an Indian man who believed that a witch doctor could bring him back to life, three days after he died.

“Arun Majhi”, aged 21, from Bhejapadar village in the eastern state of Orissa in India died after he was bitten by a snake while roaming in the jungle near his home for firewood and his grieving family buried him as per the customs of the family. But two days later, Majhi’s mother dreamt that her son could come back to life. So the family dug his grave, exhumed the corpse and hired Natabara Sahu, a local witch doctor, who promised to do his best.

“I am sitting beside my son waiting for him to come back to life,” Bibhisan Majhi, the Arun’s father said as he fanned Arun’s corpse, which was covered with a mosquito net.

But with Arun still dead two days after the witch doctor was hired, the family gave up and reburied him in Bhejapadar village in the eastern state of Orissa.
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