The first example concerns a 14-year-old boy from a Rajput family in the village of Dharali. Too busy in working in their fields, his parent had not to accompany the territorial god on his annual pilgrimage to Gangotri but to sent their son in their place. During the night, the boy started to suffer a lot of pain in one leg, and the leg became very swollen. After interrogating the palanquin of the territorial god, the reason given for the pain was that his parents had refused to follow the deity on the annual pilgrimage. The god told them to make a votive offering to follow the deity on the annual pilgrimage. The god told them to make a votive offering and to promise to accompany the deity on his pilgrimage if the child recovered. The morning after, the child felt better the leg was exactly as if nothing had happened to me. The case well exemplifies how devotion to territorial deities is strictly related to bodily activities in this case it in this case it involves the performance of a pilgrimage