Boy's feet bound to ward off bad luck
( 2004-01-08 14:00) (China Daily)
A superstitious grandmother
in Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, bound her
four-year-old grandson's feet with bandages on Monday to limit their growth and
avoid bad luck, New Evening News reports.
The suffering boy called his mother on Monday morning and cried for her help,
saying his grandmother was killing him.
When the mother rushed to her mother-in-law's home, she found her son's feet
bound with layers of bandages "a fortune teller told the old woman that long
toes would bring bad luck to the family.
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