This was a tribal village I had visited and among a lot of other things that I found fascinating, this stole the cake.I was wondering around in this area when suddenly I saw a few trees had these small locks hanging on the trunks and near it the keys were nailed too. Naturally, I got very curious.....my mind went back to the time when I was a child and was so deeply involved in fairy tales. So much so , that I often wondered and may be also believed that the stories might have some reality some where.........after all how could there be a smoke with out a fire. Lol !!!! So when I saw these locks on these tree trunk in the middle of the woods....my mind did a thousand somersault.......ahhh!!!!! fairy tales come true .......I asked the first person I came across in the village what was the story behind these small locks. And was told that , it was a local belief in the village that a person who was found possessed by ghosts or spirits were made to pray and do some rituals here under the trees and there after small lock and keys were nailed into trunk of trees to show that the ghosts has left the human abode and is now locked inside the tree. Interesting !!!! I was tempted to open up one of the locks hoping to find a genie in it.........but was strictly warned by the villagers that it might bring ill luck to me and also to their village. Well when in Rome.......be like a Roman. I respect their belief.
