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He may first appear as a man and then change into a leopard or a bear or a pig or a cat: very few escape when attacked by such a being. It is said that the spirits of young children become bhuts and those of grown-up people bongas and those of pregnant women churins. CLXXIII. Hunting Custom.
When grown-up people die they become ancestral bongas and sacrifices are offered to them at the Flower and Sohrai festivals; and when children die they become bhuts. When a pregnant woman dies, they drive long thorns into the soles of the feet before the body is burned for such women become churins.
So saying he took from his bag something like a feather and brushed her eyes with it and washed them with water. Then the woman's eyes were opened and she saw spirits bongas, bhuts, dains, churins, and the souls of dead men; and the Jugi told her not to be afraid, but not to speak to them lest men should think her mad; then he took his leave, and she returned home.
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