186 = Journal of the’ Asiatic Society of Bengal. (August, 1905. 
on her left side. I think it is a circular mark that is made. 
the decayed tooth. It is said that the insect comes out of the 
tooth, falls through the hollow bamboo into the fire, and the 
toothache ceases. The gum of some of the Indian figs is also 
used to close the hollow of a decayed tooth. 
60. Anent the Holi Festival.—Crooke in lis Folklore of Upper 
India gives many interesting particulars regrading the ea 
I will mention only a few details observed in this locality. 
heap of thorns, ete., are stacked about the first of the lunar 
when the Holi pole (dang) falls. His meaning was when the Holt 
is burnt. I find this is a common idiom—‘ When the Holi pole 
falls.” The stack is set on fire by the village priest, who presents 
hom at the village shrine, and he is often a Gond or a Baiga oF 
t 
astes, who were present at rane 
urial and witnessed the whole ceremony. (1) Immediately @ ri 
death the body was washed and covered with moist ashes. (2) 
