Monday, October 29, 2007

Horn Guy & the Holy Cow

Did you ever wonder where the term "Holy Cow!" came from? I've been thinking about this lately and I figure that it has to come from India. Of course cows are sacred here and they roam freely in the streets. People sometimes go out of their way to feed them for good fortune.

We have cows in our neighborhood and they hang outside of our house sometimes. They're fairly low key as cows are - just chewing on some grasses and such. They ate the pumpkins that we had carved into Jack-O-Lanterns for Halloween.

The other day this guy came through the neighborhood ("colony" as they call it here in India) and was playing his horn and bringing his cow by for good luck. I tipped him big - 50 rupees, and took a video of him jamming on the horn. The cow is really decked out!




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