Superstitions in Madurai
Beliefs and superstitions hinder the
measures to control dengue. Unattended manually operable wet grinders in
houses, filled with rain water, become breeding grounds for the mosquitoes.
Turning a grinding stone upside down is considered inauspicious in Tamilnadu.
Upturned grinder is believed to bring bad luck to houses. Government advises to
upturn unused grinders, to control the rapidly spreading dengue fever. But some
superstitious people are not cooperating.
In the race against time, the
need of both husband and wife getting employed in the present economic
situation, increasing in the number of nuclear families and to save time, people
started depending more on electricity. Manual wet grinders made up of stone are
abandoned. Now-a-days, due to erratic power supply with severe power cuts in
Tamilnadu, a few started using their old manual grinders inevitably.
