THE EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF PILE

Getting first hand information about the existence of the pile would help clear the confusion between the medical practice and culture due to the several unexplainable phenomena surrounding its nature and how it works. The study was conducted to found out the nature of pile and how it works, how it gets transferred from one generation to another and it?s positive and negative. The study is qualitative. Whatever information uncovered in the study was reported using the descriptive method. The study focused on the natural setting with the pile owners, victims and affiliates as the direct sources of data. Primary communication through face to face interviews was done with persons having pile, those who were victims of the pile, and those who have knowledge about pile, due to their affiliation to pile owners. The respondents freely told / narrated their stories or versions. A personal immersion was also done by the researcher in the actual households of the respondents to document their ways of life and any unusual routines in their lives because of their pile. Actual narrations by the respondents were quoted as actual data gathered.