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False God: Indian Worshippers Mistake Kangaroo Dustbin for a Deity (VIDEO)

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A peculiar video, showing several devotees offering prayers to an animal-shaped bin placed outside a temple for the first time, has quickly gone viral on social media, causing a storm of various reactions.

Being a nation with multiple faiths and beliefs, Indians often worship animals and even some inanimate objects. But recent footage of several women worshipping a fancy kangaroo trash can by mistake has provoked quite the controversy online.

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In the short video, presumably captured in the Indian state of Bihar during the Chhath Puja festival dedicated to the Sun god, a group of women dressed in saris can be seen applying traditional vermilion red powder and sprinkling the figure with holy water, being unaware that it was just a trash can, installed inside a temple complex as part of the government's Clean India Campaign.

Stunned by what they have seen, countless internet users shared a vast variety of emotions, from admiration by the women's innocent naivety to shock and sadness.

Some netizens said poor literacy rate and lack of development in Bihar was to blame.

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