AND DEHENA CHARMS. 



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Immediately after this ceremony? Didn't Abanchy Appoo himself 

 tell us afterwards that he had practised Hooniyan spells on my 

 uncle? " The more you reason with him, the more unanswerable 

 does he become, in as much as he believes in " his own eyes," " his 

 own ears," and u his own judgment," much more than he can do 

 in yours. Really, credulity and its parent, ignorance, are demons 

 too powerful to be overcome by the mere charm of reason unassisted 

 by the Jeewama of education. 



Another difficulty, is a sort of simulating hypocrisy, which a 

 demon worshipper assumes before you, if you are an Englishman. 

 He agrees with all that you say, and condemns the system of 

 demon-worship as a ridiculous absurdity, and while you are con- 

 gratulating yourself in the idea that you have succeeded in con- 

 vincing a couple of honest, sensible men of the propriety of abjuring 

 demon -worship, they go away laughing at your own ignorance and 

 simplicity, and at the same time charitably pitying you for being 

 a Christian, for they are sure that, the moment you leave this 

 world, you will go to the worst of all hells, the Lokanantarika 

 Narakaya. 



