Note 1 — Story of the Three Young Brahmans who Restored a Dead Lady to Life. (continued 3)
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The next day the mother went to the church. She told the priest that Piriang’s bridegroom had ordered her to take off her cross from her neck. The priest said that that man was a devil; for no man, as a son of God, would say that a cross made the one who wore it look ugly. The priest gave the mother a small image of the Virgin Mary. He instructed her to show the image to the bridegroom. If when he beheld it he turned his back on her as she was holding it, she was to tie him around the neck with her cintas.1 Then she was to put him in a large jar, and bury him at least twenty-one feet under the ground.