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aud probably for the same purpose, used to be heads of 
Bengalis from the plains. An incident observed by Colonel 
Dalton shows that the Garos believe not only in the survival 
after death of the souls of men and animals, but in that of 
inanimate objects. Witnessing the funeral of a young girl, 
the friends were observed to break all the earthen vessels 
placed on the grave. In answer to inquiry he was told that 
only in this way could they be used by the girl, that for her 
the pieces would reunite. In other words, the vessels must 
die like men, but their ghosts survive. ‘The Khasias, while 
burning the corpse, make offerings to the ghost that it may 
be kindly disposed to them hereafter, but take little thought 
about the future life. ‘The Kukis imagine a paradise in the 
north, where the good will enjoy abundance without labour, 
where the enemies one has slain will attend him as slaves, 
and the cattle he has killed in acts of hospitality will be 
restored to him. The wicked will be subjected to the worst 
tortures the imagination can devise. The Toda after death 
goes to a home in the west, where he is joined by the ghosts 
of his buffaloes, and goes on living just as before. It does not 
appear that he ever returns to trouble his relations. 
According to what seems to be the prevailing view, how- 
ever, the spirit acquires after death divine powers to some 
degree, and hovers about its former abode in a restless and 
uncomfortable state. It has wants much like those experi- 
enced in the body, and if these are not attended to it becomes 
malicious, and the cause of innumerable vexations to its 
kindred and neighbours. The Pani-Koch offer some of the 
first-fruits of the harvest to the ancestral spirits, clapping the 
hands to attract their notice. The priests of the Kirantis 
celebrate two festivals yearly to ancestors. Among the 
Kharwars, each family sacrifices annually a wether goat to the 
dead. ‘The Hos celebrate a festival to the shades, after the 
sowing of the first rice-crop, in order that they may favour 
the sprouting of the grain. It is also the custom with them 
to prepare for a visit from the ghost of the deceased on the 
evening when the body is consumed. Some boiled rice is set 
apart in the house, and ashes. are sprinkled on the floor, by 
which its footsteps may be detected. ‘The relatives then go 
outside, and, walking around the funeral pile, invoke the 
spirit. If, on returning to the house, the ashes are found 
disturbed, they are filled with terror at the supposed presence 
of the ghost. The Santals have very little to say about a 
future hfe, though offerimgs are made to ancestors at the close 
of the late harvest. The Korwas, of Sirgija, told Colonel 
Dalton that they worshipped no gods, but that the head of 
