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Children buried in sand during solar eclipse as relatives believe it will heal them

Fun VLOG October 26, 2022
Parents pray next to their children buried in the sand during the eclipse (Picture: Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)
Parents pray next to their buried children during the eclipse (Picture: AFP/Getty)

Desperate families have buried their sick children in the sand during a solar eclipse in the hope it cures them.

The children are covered up to their necks at the beach in Karachi, Pakistan, leaving their faces exposed to the ‘healing’ sun rays.

Other eclipse superstitions include no food being cooked during the astronomic event, and the ritual of taking a bath and changing into clean clothes when it ends.

Regular activities such as sleeping, urinating, defecating and having sex is also prohibited by some communities during the eclipse.

The partial solar eclipse was visible from most of Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East and Western parts of Asia.

TOPSHOT - A girl sleeps while seen covered with sand in a beach by her parents with the believe that exposure during a solar eclipse will heal her illness, in Karachi on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
A girl sleeps in the sand after being buried by her parents (Picture: AFP/Getty)
A relative feeds a bottle of milk to a boy covered in sand at a beach with the believe that exposure during a solar eclipse will heal his illness, in Karachi on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
It is believed that the eclipse can cure children of their disabilities (Picture: AFP/Getty)
KARACHI, PAKISTAN-OCTOBER 25: Pakistani children are seen half buried at seaside during the solar eclipse to in Karachi, Pakistan on October 25, 2022. Some Pakistani people hope that burying is ailing people during solar eclipse. (Photo by Sabir Mazhar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The children are buried up to their necks by desperate parents looking for a cure (Picture: Anadolu Agency/Getty)
TOPSHOT - A boy is covered in sand in a beach by her parents with the believe that exposure during a solar eclipse will heal his illness, in Karachi on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The partial eclipse lasted for around four hours, during which the children were buried for the entire time (Picture: AFP/Getty)
A relative sits next to children covered with sand in a beach with the believe that exposure during a solar eclipse will heal their illnesses, in Karachi on October 25, 2022. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP) (Photo by ASIF HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Parents believe their children can be cured of their sickness or disabilities by the sun rays (Picture: AFP/Getty)

In Pakistan, the eclipse began at 1.58pm and ended at 6.20pm, with the greatest point occurring at 4pm.

This eclipse was only partial and the moon’s shadow did not touch the surface of the earth at any point, the Paris Observatory said.

It will be the 16th partial solar eclipse of the century, and the second this year.

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