How Tantra Got A Bad Name And How The Witch Salvaged Her Reputation

The witch, though never previously married, was not a virgin when she met her husband for the first time in a rest house in Chandni Chowk. He lived in Meerut, she lived in Hyderabad, so she thought it would be a weekend of fun and games and no one would know. She hadn't counted on her neighbor at the rest house being a fellow Hyderabadi who came back to HYD and regaled his friends with wild tales of the witch's exploits in Delhi. When she returned to work that next Monday there were giggles and meaningful glances all over the place. The rumor mill spread this so far and so wide she had no place to hide her south asian face. She called him long distance and told him she was pregnant. They married the following Sunday at a small temple in Secunderabad and took the first train to Meerut to visit his parents. She covered her head like a dutiful bahu and sent home photographs to her parents of the same. He managed to get a job in Secunderabad and they were a happy couple.
She miscarried a month later. Her husband was devastated. Three years later they had a lovely baby girl so all was healed now. Or so we thought.
After the second baby arrived a year later, her husband moved back to Meerut and never sent for her.
He did come for a week to celebrate the second baby's first birthday.
About this time, something sad and creepy began to happen. Her husband slowly started to come undone at the seams. South asian men do not look kindly upon women who are not virgins on their wedding night unless those same women can offer them all their taboos on a silver platter with some kumkum and haldi as compensation.
The witch consulted her tantrik and was told her husband needs the blood of virgins since he has never had any. It is his birthright as a man.
How tantriks go about these things is not quite clear to me but that was the beginning of the end of the  possibility of a nice nuclear family growing up and growing closer together strengthening the fabric of society.
The witch and her husband offer a united front to the world and the little world they inhabit allows them their craziness as both man and wife are in agreement as to how to conduct their daily affairs. There really are many roads to Hell.

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