Karni Mata: The tourist attraction that challenges him to walk barefoot between 25,000 sacred rats

Take your shoes and enter a world where the mice are kings: but only if you have an open mind – if you hurt one of these animals, you may have to pay dearly.

Do not visit the Karni Mata Temple in Deshnok, India, unless it has a strong stomach.

This sacred place is full of animals who, to Europeans, may seem disgusting: sacred rats. And are to the thousands: it is estimated to be more than 25 thousand.

In fact, these animals are quite respected in this temple: Hindusacredize that these are human reincarnations.

Karni Mata was a fifteenth -century woman with extraordinary powers, and is seen as the reincarnation of the goddess Durga. It is believed that this woman, the page tells, has the power to return humans to the earth in the form of rats, and later again as human beings.

This is why the rats are special in this great temple, which is filled with curious tourists who are really forced to remove shoes out of respect for religion.

Within the space, there are even local people who cook with the rats, feeding them in the same way that a human feeds on the pans without anyone rinse them-after all, they are sacred. There are really Heavy fines for those who hurt a rat.

Hindus people visit the temple to venerate Karni Mata and his deceased family members in this place. They drink from the same water and milk and eat the same food as mice so that they are lucky in the future.

And if a rat passes over his feet, he is not resting – he is actually a sign of luck.