Note 29 — Chapter IV · WORSHIP OF ANCESTORS AND SAINTS.
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The character of a Bhut is to trouble people and to take revenge on an old enemy. A person attacked by a spirit speaks incoherently and acts like a mad man. In such cases the leaves of the herb satáp are used. The leaves are pounded and put under the patient’s nose. In a few minutes, the person who is possessed by the spirit begins to speak.29