Superstitious Parents Hopeful Handicapped Children To Benefit From Solar Eclipse

In many cities of Pakistan ,especially Hyderabad,parents were hopeful that a miracle would happen because of the solar eclipse and change their paralysed child's destiny.

According to local paper DAWN, children who had some kind of ailment were buried up to their necks (with only their face visible) in mud in hope to cure their paralysis or ailment.They were buried near the banks of river Indus which is about an hour away from Hyderabad, in Pakistan.

Some people posing as spiritual healers also declared that the solar eclipse was a good sign for healing those who had some kind of illness.Some parents felt that even is a slight improvement was felt by this process of healing they would be grateful to the Almighty.

On the other hand a psychiatrist said that these were just myths and had nothing to do with medical science.

However ,it was said that people in India and China showed a great deal of excitement and fervour and there was certain amount of fear too.

It was the longest solar eclipse of the 2ist century and it caused a strange kind of darkness.