Indian Folk Tales : Being Side-Lights On Village Life in Bilaspore, Central Provinces
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If a house is deserted the custom is to sweep and plaster the place, and then, after lighting a lamp, to leave it in the house and withdraw altogether. After the spirit of the dead has wandered around restlessly for a certain time, it is said that it will again become incarnate, and take either the form of man or of one of the lower animals. The practice known as bot lagdnS, has reference to this belief, for, before burial or Death, Burial, and the Hereafter 51 cremation, it is customary to mak...e a mark with soot or with oil on the body of the deceased. When children are born into the families of nearer relatives the birth-marks are closely examined, and if any of these should have the faintest resemblance to the mark made on the deceased, it is believed that he has become reincarnated in the new-born babe. Transmigration. The old Satndmi Chamdr, named Gobardhan, whom I have already mentioned, often conversed with me regarding the transmigration of souls. He professed to be able to say exactly what form of life his acquaint- ances had in a previous " birth." He beheved himself to have been a Brahman, who for some offence was sent into this world as a Chamdr.
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