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produced the hidden sari from the hollow bamboo. Scarcely 
had the woman put it on when she became invisible and dis- 
entire settlement, never very large, moves é 
doubtless because of the belief that the deceased will frequent his 
former ab I i 
to build another house on another site. Higher up in the grades 
f civilzation we find a desire to withdraw from the room in 
Which one has died, if not from the belief that it is haunted, 
then on account of the unpleasant associations. Amongst the 
People of whom I write, if a house is to be deserted it will be 
ee. a lamp lighted, and the residents will withdraw. 
- Sleeman 
Recollections, mentions these parts as haying an unfavourable 
reputation. It is currently reported that in the old days when 
® witch was found she would be tied to the horns or the legs of 
@ buffalo, and the buffalo was then infuriated till the victim 
Was killed. 
67. A Case of “ Possession.”’—It was on the night of the 9th - 
August, 1901, that Ihad the following experience with a man sai 
