A woman suffocated under a pile of cow dung after being told it would cure her snake bite.
在被告知可以通过将自己埋入牛粪堆来治愈蛇咬之后，一名妇女却因此窒息而死。
Mother of five, Devendri, 35, from a village in Bulandshahr, northern India, was out getting some wood to burn for cooking when a snake bit her on her hand.今年35岁的德文德里来自印度北部布兰德斯哈赫尔的一个村庄，她是一个5岁孩子的母亲，在外出取木材生火做饭时被一条蛇咬到了手。She ran home to inform her husband, Mukesh, and they quickly decided to call the local snake charmer.她跑回家告诉了她的丈夫穆克什，二人立即决定把当地的弄蛇者叫来。The local snake charmer, Murarey, advised Mukesh to cover his wife in cow dung, suggesting it would suck out the poison.
当地的弄蛇者穆拉利建议穆克什用牛粪盖住他的妻子，称这样会吸出毒素。People gathered outside the house and watched as Devendri lay outside as Mukesh buried her in cow dung and the snake charmer sat beside her and chanted mantras.人们聚集在屋外，看着德文德里躺在外面，穆克什把她埋在牛粪里，而弄蛇者就坐在她旁边，念诵着咒语。But after 75 minutes Devendri sadly died.但75分钟后，德文德里不幸去世了。Superstition is India is considered a widespread social problem and usually attributed to a lack of education in rural parts of the country.印度的迷信问题被认为是一个普遍的社会问题，通常归因于该国农村地区缺乏教育。