When the mythical monster was driven away from the giant fig tree...

Its kind of a myth but makes for a fun story..

The place our house is on had a large peepal (a type of fig) tree.....

These trees can become  enormous .....numerous call it home...going by the dark canopy, people make stories that monsters live in it...

So, many decades back, to the build our current house, the fig tree needed to be cut down..sad..but it was required...

If the tree will be hacked, the monster living in it will be angry..

So, village folks advised my father take permission of the imaginary monster, by appeasing him with some cannabis....

As suggested to him, my father  offered some of the hemp leaves on a mud tile full of hot embers...requesting the monster to leave the tree and go to live in some  new tree....as he wishes to built a house and raise kids.......

Days after the ritual, the tree was cut down..

My mother says, out living room floor was the place the tree stood...the roots are still there, under the ground.........

Also, the bedroom threshold has been fitted with some copper coins to prevent goblins from entering it..

Myths are myths...but that house has been nice enough to help my parents live there all these years with a brood of kids..