Note 189 — Chapter VI · THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.

There is a step-well near Hāmpar under the jurisdiction of Dhrāngadhra which is the resort of a bhut. A Girāsia and his wife arrived here one day at midnight. The Girāsia tied his mare to a tree hard by, and went to the well to fetch water for the mare. On his return he found there a number of mares like his own tied to the trees. He therefore smelt their mouths to recognise which of them was his own, but in the flurry caused by the appearance of so many mares, his waist-cloth got entangled, and while mounting his mare he fell down, which frightened him so much that he exclaimed “I am overtaken (by a ghost)” and died.189