Chapter -1

'On the night  the moon hides... U hide too'

A tradition is a belief passed by generations. It is something that most of the time doesn't make sense, but also most of the time it is something u can't help but not believe as well.

It's the only piece of memory and proof we have of our long gone ancestors. Hence traditions can also be regarded as the human effort to stop itself from being forgotten.

Traditions keep us connected to our ancestors who have been forgotten, due to which even if you don't believe in traditions, you oath to take part in it.

Few traditions are fun to take part in whereas  traditions are horrifying.

Few have a beneficial effect on you and few make you sick.

Few traditions are true, and few traditions are false.

Tonight is the Puravana, the moonless night. Pura means no and Vana means night.

The night with no moon occurs twice a month, during which you keep the lights low. Almost as if we don't exist. 

According to the rules of this tradition, you eat before the sun sets and ‘prevail silence’ the moment the sun is down.

A night without the moon is regarded as the night the demons come home. A night without light is the night we all go blind.

A night with no light, is a moonless night and that is the day demons make their way. 

According to legends, related to this tradition, on Puravana nights demons ascend from hell and roam the earth. This is the day they are let free to wander on the earth, so that they would repent of their sins. During their trip on the Earth, most of them don't want to go back to their world where they are torchered endlessly because of which they search for hosts whose bodies they could occupy.

The only way for the god of death to take the tarnished soul back to its horrifying fate, is to kill the host body and take the soul of the host with the demon, in the process killing an innocent life.

This is the reason you keep your doors locked, mouths shut and lights off on the night of no moon. 

'Puragorha'  meaning 'no one home' , is what you write outside your door to stop the demon from entering the house. This is to trick them, so that they think no one is home and leave. But if they hear a noise, they know that someone is home and that you are lying. This will now cause the demon to forcefully enter your house and capture the one making the notice as their host.

I, for the longest I remember, have been wanting to see the demons with my own eyes.

What do they look like? Or do they even exist?

But until now I could see nothing. 

But today, today is the night I call them myself. 

Today is Puravana and today is the night is see some demons.

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