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Voot-er goppo …on halloween day!!
I vaguely remember this incident…I was a pre-schooler then, memory is still vivid on certain parts of the ‘drama’!
I can see the ‘voot-e dhora lady’ clearly in my mind’s eye.
It was a yearly visit to village with my nani.
Oneday, it became a buzz with all excitement in the area(para) that,’tonight omuker bou-er voot sarano hobe’.ojha ashbe …
So everybody around geared up to go for the ‘scene’…including me!
My nani restricted me not to go… She was worried I would be scared seeing all those nonsense itseems.
So she tried to scare me saying that ‘when voot leaves the possessed- person,it will catch another manush whoever it fancy,on the`way back’.
But,the Bua who was more interested for herself not to miss such voot-tarano drama of life-time…somehow managed Nani’s permission and took me along,with promise that,at no point of time she would leave me ‘un-hugged’ from her ‘kole’(lolll).
She became a guarantor with further promise that,she would never stand anywhere near the door,through where the voot would be flying out!!
We reached the neighbouring house after dinner and esha-r namaz at night as scheduled.
Now I shall describe the ghotona in present tense…as I could see it so live still…
A woman,not so young, not so old either, sitting on a ‘piri’ on the floor,with both legs spread straight, her hair all let-loose,clapping both hands…at times slapping both knees…laughing aloud and talking incoherent abol tabol nonstop…shaking her head both ways…(it’s a typical scene of a trance that I have seen in films after growing up).
It’s a big room in a village house. She is sitting at a corner facing the door opposite,one more door somewhere also kept wide open…a big crowd of male n female of the ‘para’ are standing around eagerly waiting…but nobody near the door!
There is a ‘koola’ infront of the voot e dhora woman,filled with so many things, mostly I remember, were some leaves, dry chilli, holud, dhoop and ki ki shob.
One small clay pot with koyla and fire infront.
A dariwala huzoor type man, sitting nearby and pouring all those ingredients inside the claypot fire…the room is filled with smoke n smell.
The huzoor asking: Tor naam ki’…and holding the claypot near her nose.
She says: komuna.
Huzoor: na koyle dekhitasi moja dara,valo chash to taratari kaw’…he hold her head,jake bole theshe dhora over the smoked pot,with the help of a few women.
She: (scream) koy koy koy amar nam koy(struggling to push away n spitting on those assistants)
So she is left and again huzoor asking: shiggir bol naile holud pora tor nake dhukai dimu’…he really put the burnt holud n morich into her nose.
She scream and promise to tell all that’s being asked by huzoor,like whats her name, baap er nam ki,kon gerame tar bash,kon gaas-e(tree) kobe kothay how and why got possessed her blah blah…
All these actually this woman talking? No…the voot is talking in this woman’s voice.
Its been a long hour to persuade her to tell only personal details of the voot.
It s such fun to see the voot cheating everytime by peomising huzoor that she is going to tell-all…but the moment morich-holud and all the things taken away from her nose,she starts laughing and talk other nonsense and spit.
So the huzoor now take a jhata and saying, :tor pituni khawar shokh hoyse…pitani na dile tui jabina bujtasi..’
Huzoor emon ek bari marlo on that womans back, she started crying screaming…ar amio chitkar kore kanna…
Bua voy peye amake kole chepe dhore dour..and we reach home!! So the final scene amar dekha hoy nai.
Next day Bua brought the news that, huzoor er jharu-r bari khayyia that woman finally confessed all that beeing asked,tarpor ekta juta (shoe) mukhe kamor diye dhoire run out of the room outside ‘uthan’ ,as instructed by huzoor…and oggyan(faint) hoye pore silo. When she come back to sense she was behaving normal itseems.
Tar mane voot sere chole gese.
And voot jawar shomoy kono oghoton ghote nai..mane onno kaure dhore nai.
After tthat incident I have seen that woman a few times after few years also, but she was always looking normal and never heard of she got possessed by voot again!
Today…looking back…I believe she was suffering from ‘Schizophrenia’.
(it’s a true story that I had witnessed at that age!)
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