bhid

Updated: May 13, 2025

We were in Central India, the very nest of all kinds of superstitions, and were surrounded by Bhils. All along the Vindya ridge, from Yama, on the west of the "dead city," the country is thickly populated by this most daring, restless and superstitious of all the half-savage tribes of India. The Orientalists think that the naive Bhils comes from the Sanskrit root bhid, which means to separate.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan