38 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [February, 1909. 
Friends are expected to bring gifts for the spirit to take 
with it after burial. It is believed that these gifts, comprising 
two spears and cloths, according to circumstance of deceased, also 
beer (weak and strong), tobacco and pipe, and if the deceased 
of the earth, where the spirits of the relations departed before 
are met with on the road. The more plentiful the gifts the 
more pleased is the spirit towards the giver. Before giving 
particulars of the burial ceremony, it will be interesting to hear 
isnamed Kokto. He is Supposed to live in a grand mansion 
with sentries guarding all sides, and nobody from the upper 
world dare enter. On the appearance of any spirit from above 
a following of all the animals procured by honest hunting. 
As Tangkhul women do not hunt, it is difficult to find out how 
Kokto distinguishes the weaker sex. However, Kokt 
wie: of everything gone through 
e burial ceremony.—On the day of burial the rich kill a 
buffalo, others manage a cow, or a pig. They are killed befor e 
