When Shakuntala started acting bizarrely, her family members called in local witch doctors to do an exorcism. The witch doctors arrived and performed several rituals involving strings, flowers, and reciting prayers ordering the evil spirits to leave, but nothing...

Krishna, a 60-year-old widow, lived most of her life following Hindu ideology. She offered animal sacrifices to the gods at their altars; she visited temples and performing the required rituals. Then Krishna developed a strange headache accompanied by loss of...

Dan, a faithful devotee of Hinduism, neverfailed to practice the rituals recommended by the tradition, but his life remained the same – poverty, struggles, sickness, and more. At times he experienced severe stomach pain and couldn’t find relief by medicine or by any...

Bahadur has had a long life filled withstruggle. Despite his best efforts, he and his family found no relief from the hardships theyencountered. A family member developed an ongoing illness that stretched them to the brink financially, and he felt despair. Bahadur...

As a 70-year-old, Prem enjoyed nothing more than interacting with evil spirits through occultism. One morning he was woken up with a sudden violent convulsion, and by the time it stopped, he was unconscious. This happened three to four times every day, even when he...

Hamsa memorized all the Buddhist chants and chanted them very religiously every morning and night. Apart from those chants, she also followed the Buddhist guidelines and teachings very meticulously. She donated to the temples and the monks. In spite of doing good...

Sandiya worshiped numerous gods and sacrificed animals and birds to the gods and goddess at their altars. Sandiya's 12-year-old son's eyesight was not healthy, even after getting glasses. Everything in the distance appearedblurred and blood oozed out from his eyes...

Being very religious, Pushpa diligently worshipped various gods and goddesses that she had at home hoping that they would deliver her father from alcoholism. Her father was a violent alcoholic, driven by his own impulses and desires. Pushpa had to endure the chaos,...

Walking down the long hospital corridor,  Kamala sensed with each step she took that she was losing a piece of herself. After the death of her second child followed by a miscarriage, Kamala was diagnosed with major clinical depression. Instead of looking forward to...