Okay, I'm very sorry I haven't been much active lately. I had to go to a village for some volunteer work of making a bamboo bridge(we call them shanko) over a canal that separated it from the nearest city. Something happened within this time.
Bamboo bridges are generally very rickety, they are three or four bamboos wide, suspended over the water by bamboo platforms they are tied to with jute ropes. We had five columns, thus five knots.
We had almost finished building the bridge. But the moment we tied the last knot, the first came undone. It almost hit the heads of some bathing people, but thankfully a volunteer caught them before they could.
As we took care of that knot, the third came undone. The bridge wasn't equally supported so we couldn't leave it there.
Fixing the third, the first came undone again.
This Tom and Jerry went on till evening. If we tied them both at once, the came undone almost instantly. As we were about to give up, the village imam came forth and told us a long tale of a girl who had taken her life a few years ago in the very place we were building the bridge. He said her unrested spirit was doing this. He offered to tie some holy amulets(tabiz) on the bridge so that it doesn't happen again. Once he tied an holy amulets on each piller, we could tie them properly. By the time we were finished, it was almost 10 pm. And I swear i saw the amulets flicker into fire a few times. My girlfriend was working with us too, she complained about someone pulling her hair. It was far past midnight when we reached out dorm.
I found this experience odd.
Do you think there is some scientific explanation?
The ones I have mostly concern us having very poor manufacturing capabilities.
After all, this is our first bridge, all the other ones before were mostly earthen dams and raised school houses.
Bamboo bridges are generally very rickety, they are three or four bamboos wide, suspended over the water by bamboo platforms they are tied to with jute ropes. We had five columns, thus five knots.
We had almost finished building the bridge. But the moment we tied the last knot, the first came undone. It almost hit the heads of some bathing people, but thankfully a volunteer caught them before they could.
As we took care of that knot, the third came undone. The bridge wasn't equally supported so we couldn't leave it there.
Fixing the third, the first came undone again.
This Tom and Jerry went on till evening. If we tied them both at once, the came undone almost instantly. As we were about to give up, the village imam came forth and told us a long tale of a girl who had taken her life a few years ago in the very place we were building the bridge. He said her unrested spirit was doing this. He offered to tie some holy amulets(tabiz) on the bridge so that it doesn't happen again. Once he tied an holy amulets on each piller, we could tie them properly. By the time we were finished, it was almost 10 pm. And I swear i saw the amulets flicker into fire a few times. My girlfriend was working with us too, she complained about someone pulling her hair. It was far past midnight when we reached out dorm.
I found this experience odd.
Do you think there is some scientific explanation?
The ones I have mostly concern us having very poor manufacturing capabilities.
After all, this is our first bridge, all the other ones before were mostly earthen dams and raised school houses.
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