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Slow loris rescued from tribal 'godman'
Times of India | K Sarojkumar Sharma | TNN | Apr 11, 2013, 10.52 PM IST
Yumnam Arun, an Assam Rifles personnel and Thangjam Dipak Singh of Langmeidong village in Thoubal district, were on a trip to Churachandpur district last week when they saw the tribal elder rearing the slow loris at his home.
Identifying himself as a 'godman' and 'medicine man', the man informed them that he caught the loris from a jungle in the district bordering Mizoram to use the animal's body parts to cure human ailments. He said loris fur could stop bleeding when applied on a wound and its tongue could cure a broken human limb, while its limb when put on the abdomen of a pregnant woman helped easy delivery of a child.
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