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This is a strange story to wrap your head around.

A husband and wife from India built a homemade Guillotine in order to decapitate themselves in a bizarre ritual that may be linked to their worshipping of the deity Shiva.

Farmer Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife, Hansaben Makwana, 35, even designed their suicide in such a way that their heads, once severed, rolled onto a fire altar as a form of human sacrifice. Jesus.

The horrific act happened in the village of Vinchiya, located in the Rajkot district of the western state of Gujarat in India.

“The couple first prepared a fire altar before putting their heads under a guillotine-like mechanism held by a rope. As soon as they released the rope, an iron blade fell on them, severing their heads, which rolled into the fire.”

TA the time of their suicide, their two young children aged 12 and 13, were visiting with an uncle in a nearby town, but unfortunately, the poor siblings were the first people to discover their parent’s headless corpses the next day.

The couple left a suicide note in which they took full responsibility for the act, and urged their relatives to please take care of their elderly parents and now-orphaned children.

Investigators were taking statements from relatives and trying to determine whether the twin beheadings were part of a black magic ritual.

NY Post reports that the pair were staunch devotees of the Hindu god Shiva and erected a makeshift altar on their property where they regularly worshipped. According to their family, the couple had no financial issues or marital problems and so far there has not been a clear reason for the double suicide.

The Hindu god Shiva is often called the Destroyer, as well as being known as Adiyogi (the first Yogi), and is regarded as the patron god of yoga, meditation, and the arts.

[source:nypost]