Posted on 06/14/2022 9:09:46 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
An elephant trampled a woman to death in India, only to return during her funeral to pull her body off a pyre and trample over her corpse again.
The incident was said to have occurred in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Thursday, and comes amid rising animal-human conflict in the country.
Maya Murmu, 70, was targeted by a wild elephant that had strayed from a nearby wildlife sanctuary while collecting water in the district of Mayurbhanj.
Despite being rushed to hospital, the elderly woman succumbed to her injuries in hospital and her body was placed on a funeral pyre the same evening.
On Saturday evening, while her family members were performing her last rites, the same elephant appeared and took Ms Murmu’s body from the pyre and trampled on it, before throwing it away.
Her terrified family members fled the scene and were only able to complete Ms Murmu’s last rites several hours later, once the elephant had left the area.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
An elephant never forgets. Apparently they never forgive either.
They don’t have guns?
There has never been a headline like that..and I suspect/hope we will never see it again.
She did something to that elephant or members of the elephants group, to provoke these two specific reactions against her.
Don’t want this to happen to you, don’t do stuff to elephants.
Forgive for what?
And how’d it know she was getting buried that day?
Making sure that the job was finished.
I am going to go out on a trunk and say that India Karen seriously pissed off Elephant.
The Elephant could not forget, or forgive because death was not good enough.
That was my first thought.
This is India.
They largely let animals roam. Remember reincarnation, some people come back as animals, or lower forms die and rise up into animals.
Noahic Covenant: “And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being.”
“Whoever sheds human blood,
by humans shall their blood be shed;
for in the image of God
has God made mankind.” (Gen. 9:5,6)
This very ancient law....is why we kill animals who’ve killed human beings, and of course, why we have the Death Penalty for murder.
It read the obituaries?
There’s an Indian Country-Western song in here somewhere, with a killer sitar solo.
In previous incarnation as a human, the elephant, once a human, may have had her
boyfriend stolen by the now dead human woman.
The elephant looks down and says “ dang. Wrong woman. My bad.” Then it tried to sneak away as best as elephant could.
And he’s crying in his tea.
That must be it. This elephant probably had a grudge on this woman from a previous life. A little unfinished business, as it were.
As someone else posted, the woman probably did something to offend the elephant - or maybe she resembled someone who had done.
This behavior is too specific for it to simply be a rogue elephant (if the story is true at all.)
Some don’t even want to kill a flea, in case grand pa Adityavardhana had reincarnated into one.
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