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Updated: June 1, 2025
It was thereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of the stranglers, held his sway. These ruffians, united by a secret bond, strangled victims of every age in honor of the goddess Death, without ever shedding blood. There was a period when this part of the country could scarcely be traveled over without corpses being found in every direction.
"The man raised his face toward the rafters of the room, and, with right hand uplifted, his attitude was one of intent listening. "'Unworthy, unworthy, unworthy, he murmured, in a strange absent monotone, as if repeating words he was actually hearing. 'You have broken my laws. Go now to your doom, you and all your brothers. Such priests Kali will not have. Thuggee is no more.
They are kindly people, the natives. The face and the bearing that indicate a surly spirit and a bad heart seemed to me to be so rare among Indians so nearly non-existent, in fact that I sometimes wondered if Thuggee wasn't a dream, and not a reality. The bad hearts are there, but I believe that they are in a small, poor minority.
You can get the facts of a custom like caste, and Suttee, and Thuggee, and so on and with the facts a theory which tries to explain, but never quite does it to your satisfaction. You can never quite understand how so strange a thing could have been born, nor why. For instance the Suttee.
The brave man and the coward, the erect spirit fighting to the last, and the poor creature that despairs from the first, all are confounded in one undistinguishing end by sudden strangulation. This was the original defect of the plan. The sudden surprise, and the scientific noosing as with a Chilian lasso, constituted in fact a main feature of Thuggee.
A tiger, a panther, a buffalo or a hog rouses your utmost energies for its destruction you even risk your lives in its pursuit. How much higher game is a Thug's!" That must really be the secret of the rise and development of Thuggee. The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done these are traits of the human race at large.
Megpunnaism is supposed by its votaries to be, like Thuggee, under the immediate protection of the great goddess Davee, or Kalee, whose favour is to be obtained before the commencement of every expedition, and whose omens, whether of good or evil, are to be diligently sought on all occasions.
Some of these travellers were on horseback and well armed, but the Thugs, who appear to have been upwards of two hundred in a gang, had provided against all risk of failure. The only one left alive of all that numerous party, was an infant four years old, who was afterwards initiated into all the mysteries of Thuggee.
An hour later, the dead body of this same Mahal, strangled by Thuggee, lay concealed beneath some reeds on the edge of a desert strand, whither he had gone to take boat to join the vessel. When at a subsequent period, after the departure of the steamship, they found the corpse of the smuggler, M. Joshua sought in vain for the voluminous packet, which he had entrusted to his care.
The aversion to bloodshed became in time so great that many sects of Thuggee consider it defiling to touch human blood!" He closed the book and threw it on the table. "Don't you think that proves the case?" "Yes," I said, thoughtfully. "And the yogi is he also a Thug?" "Oh, no; a White Priest of Siva could never be a Thug. The worship of Siva and of Kali are the very opposites of each other.
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