The fields look flooded... water level almost kissing the embankment.
We cross what looks like a road kill.. dead dog…looks like a dead dog.
But I know it aint…just know.
We stop & reverse.
It’s a wild jackal or “siyar” (Canis aureus)
The poor thing had been killed somewhere else and thrown on the highway. Its hind legs had been tied, a tell tale patch of skin is amiss from his left chest.. and a deep gash underneath it ..I had some of these medicinal kills as a young boy in munger.
That was.. like ages ago.
Shit.
So this fckuing practice of killing these wild jackals to cure eczema is still alive.
I feel like puking.
This poor creature must have been trapped and killed.
Killed cause of the folklore that thrusting ur eczema infected hand in the chest of a juvenile jackal is going to cure it.
They are also killed to get what folks call " siyar singhi"
That " siyar singhi" is supposedly present only on alpha males of the pack.
But to sell fake " siyar singhi" you have to have a jackals carcass and some halfcooked hard seller to sell.
Do not but any of these sickening stuff please.