Occult ritual goes wrong: man swallows live chick and dies!

Chhattisgarh - Anand Yadav (35†), a man from the village of Chhindkalo in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, died in a highly unusual incident. His death was caused by a chick.

An innocent chick had to die for the desperate desire to have children. (symbolic image)
An innocent chick had to die for the desperate desire to have children. (symbolic image)  © STR / AFP

According to reports, he had swallowed it alive, as reported by"India Today".

Other villagers suspected it was some kind of occult ritual to help him become a father.

According to some of them, the 35-year-old had problems with infertility and turned to a local occultist.

Shortly after swallowing the animal, he collapsed at home and died. Doctors then carried out an autopsy, but the cause of death initially remained a mystery.

But then they discovered the dead chick in a cut near its neck. The animal, which was about 20 centimetres long, was stuck and blocked both its food passage and its airway.

"This is the first time in my career, in which I have performed more than 15,000 autopsies, that I have been confronted with a case like this," said Dr. Santu Bag in amazement. The local police are now trying to establish the exact circumstances of this curious case.