Desperate families have buried their sick children in the sand during a solar eclipse in the hope it cures them.
The children are covered up to their necks at the beach in Karachi, Pakistan, leaving their faces exposed to the ‘healing’ sun rays.
Other eclipse superstitions include no food being cooked during the astronomic event, and the ritual of taking a bath and changing into clean clothes when it ends.
Regular activities such as sleeping, urinating, defecating and having sex is also prohibited by some communities during the eclipse.
The partial solar eclipse was visible from most of Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East and Western parts of Asia.