lore dump: the rat temple where stepping on one wrong gets you a gold rat (Karni Mata, Deshnoke)

not haunted exactly but it's the most genuinely uncanny religious site in Rajasthan so it belongs in the archive. Karni Mata temple, Deshnoke, ~30km south of Bikaner. they call it the Temple of Rats. 25,000+ rats living in the temple, called kabas. you walk in barefoot, they run over your feet, and ……