somai

Updated: June 28, 2025

Somai saw how they dealt with their other victims: they tied them hand and foot and threw them alive into a pot of boiling oil and when they were cooked they hung the bodies up in the doorway and would take a bite as they passed in and out; the liver and heart and brains they cooked separately.

Cecil Henry Bompas - Folklore of the Santal Parganas