There was an old custom which my amma & ammoomma followed, but I somehow didn’t. There was a particular day, don’t remember which, when they prepared food for rats and ants. Rice was fried along with coconut scrapings and jiggery was added to it. This mixture was put on vazhaila pieces and kept in all corners of the house. This was done at sandhya and kept till next morning. A small thiri dipped in oil and lighted from the ‘Nilavilakku’ was kept in each leaf. We children were very excited in doing this. Ammoomma said it was for the rats & ants. If they were fed once a year like this, they won’t trouble us.
From such a Bharatheeya samskaram where we reached now….We have different “Hits’ to kill each insect….
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