Different kinds of offerings are made to please the gods in Hinduism. Puranas are full of description about what can be offered to a particular deity. Hindus have also added to that list a whole lot of new items including broom, which is offered to Shiva at Pataleshwar Temple in Sadatbadi Village near Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh. Many people might consider broom as an unusual offering. But is it? Shiva accepts anything that is given wholeheartedly by his devotee. He even drank the poison halahala during the Samudra Manthan (churning of ocean). So, why are brooms offered? People here believe that those people suffering from any sort of skin diseases get cured after taking an oath to offer broom at Pataleshwar Temple . Shyamlal Yadav writes in India Today The brooms offered to the god are always in circulation. Once offered, these brooms are sold by the temple authorities to the shopkeepers sitting outside the complex, from where they are bought again by devotee