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Updated: June 11, 2025
The full moon, the last phase of growth, is less prominent; where it marks a festival day it is generally in connection with an agricultural event, as among the non-Aryan Bhils of India and in the later Hebrew calendar; in both these cases the observance occurs only once in the year.
Some centuries later the Crusaders brought to Europe from the plains of Palestine the novel device of armorial bearings. Chitor itself appears to have been in possession of the Mori princes until, in A.D. 728, it was taken by Bappa, who, though of royal race, was brought up in obscurity by the Bhils as an attendant on the sacred kine.
Left and right the Bhils had scattered to let John Chinn subdue his own horse."My word!" he thought. "He's trying to frighten me!" and fired between the saucer-like eyes, leaping aside upon the shot. A big coughing mass, reeking of carrion, bounded past him up the hill, and he followed discreetly.
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.
Your revered ancestor, my boy, according to the Bhils, has a tiger of his own a saddle-tiger that he rides round the country whenever he feels inclined. I don't call it decent in an ex-Collector's ghost; but that is what the Southern Bhils believe. Even our men, who might be called moderately cool, don't care to beat that country if they hear that Jan Chinn is running about on his tiger.
The sign is not for us; and, indeed, he is a young man. How should he lie idle of nights? He says his bed is too hot and the air is bad. He goes to and fro for the love of night-running. He has said it." The grey-whiskered assembly shuddered. "He says the Bhils are his children. Ye know he does not lie. He has said it to me." "But what of the Satpura Bhils? What means the sign for them?"
But Chinn, remembering the first law of Oriental diplomacy, in an even voice answered: "I have come this far only because the Satpura folk are foolish, and dared not visit our lines. Now bid them wait on me here. I am not a servant, but the master of Bhils." "I go I go," clucked the old man. Night was falling, and at any moment Jan Chinn might whistle up his dreaded steed from the darkening scrub.
"Rather let him loose the Clouded Tiger upon us. We do not go." "Nor I, though I bore him in my arms when he was a child in this his life. Wait here till the day." "But surely he will be angry." "He will be very angry, for he has nothing to eat. But he has said to me many times that the Bhils are his children. By sunlight I believe this, but by moonlight I am not so sure.
This is Chandvad, where, during the Sepoy mutiny, the Bhils streamed from their ambuscades like a mighty mountain torrent, and cut many an English throat. But English people do not believe in Tatva or in any other authority and want us to learn that Kandesh begins right at the foot of Chandor hillocks.
What's the old boy supposed to be doing now?" "Riding cross-country by moonlight on his processional tiger. That's the story. He's been seen by about two thousand Bhils, skipping along the tops of the Satpuras, and scaring people to death. They believe it devoutly, and all the Satpura chaps are worshipping away at his shrine tomb, I mean like good uns. You really ought to go down there.
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