Note 73 — Chapter V · THE WORSHIP OF THE MALEVOLENT DEAD.
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(5) Munja is the spirit of a Bráhman boy who dies immediately after his thread ceremony, but before the final ceremony called Sod-munj is complete. It does not greatly affect its victim but simply frightens. When it attacks, it is difficult to drive out. It is cast out only when the patient makes a pilgrimage to a holy shrine.73 It resides in a Pipal tree or in a well.