"The more you think about Ghost, the more you believe...." The Tower of Silence... Indian officials investigating several missing persons reports from a nearby city. What they found was a "tower of silence". Tower of silence. The Dakhma is belief to be a circular raised structure used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead. The common Dakhma originally denoted any place of the dead.The term Tower of silence is NEOLOGISM attributed to Robert Murphy who, in 1832, was a translator of British colonial Government in India. Zoroastrians Tradition considers a dead body, in addition to cut hair and nail parings, to be unclean. Specially, the corpse demon was believed to rush into the body and contaminate everything it came into contact with , hence the Vendidad has rules for disposing of the dead as safely as possible. To preclude the pollution of earth or fire, the bodies of the dead are placed atop a tower and so exposed to the sun and to bi...
Haunted Places In India and Story Behind It
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