The Seduction Of Shiva: Tales Of Life And Love - Plot & Excerpts
A poor man, he went one day to the forest to fetch wood. As he was chopping it with an axe, a splinter flew and pierced his leg right through. He fainted, and was found bleeding in this condition by another man who recognized him and brought him home. The brahman’s distressed wife revived him, washed off the blood and tied a bandage over the wound on his leg. Though nursed every day, the wound would not heal. It remained open and running, and its flow had weakened the man to the point of death when he was visited by a colleague, another brahman, who spoke to him in private. ‘My friend Yajna Datta was very poor for long,’ said the visitor, ‘but he became rich after propitiating a pishacha, a flesh-eating demon, and now lives happily. He told me about the ritual for it, and you too, my friend, should appease such a demon to heal your wound.’ Thereafter the visitor taught the wounded man the spell. ‘Wake up in the last quarter of the night. Naked, your hair untied and mouth unrinsed, take as much rice as you can in your two fists and go to the crossroads repeating this spell.
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