The mouse temple crawls at the foot of tourists in India

Karni Mata Temple in India is home to about 20,000 mice, and pilgrims are always pleased to witness this animal running at its feet.

Karni Mata (Rat temple) in Rajasthan, India is a temple containing more than 20,000 mice.For people and visitors, rats that are considered disasters always bring diseases, destroy crops, here they are provided, worshiped, fed and protected.

Believers believe that the rat is the incarnation of the goddess Karni Mata (left).

Surender Sharma, a tourist, said that the first time she witnessed a sanctuary had so many mice.What's even more bizarre is that, despite many mice, there is no epidemic brought by this animal.

More than 20,000 mice move freely in the temple.They usually take food from a large metal bowl - a place to store milk and cereals daily.This food is provided by devotees.

Children who come to the temple also have fun with the mice without being prevented by their parents for fear of spreading the disease.People also built shelter for rats and iron nets so that they would not be hunted by other animals.

Tourists and pilgrims come here to eat candy.Sometimes, they also ate leftover pieces of candy that were eaten by rats because the concept of mice is sacred objects.

Many tourists said that when they visited the temple, they looked happy with the mice.However, many female guests still scream when being run by these animals.

In the temple are mainly white and brown mice.People here believe that if you see white rats will certainly be lucky.Therefore, people are often happy and excited when they see these colored mice.

Workers are preparing food for rats.

Those who govern the temple often remind visitors to travel carefully, avoid stepping on the mouse.If anyone accidentally trampled a mouse, it would be considered a sin.In order to atone, he must buy a statue of gold or silver, a mouse image and proceed to the temple.