Note 133 — Chapter II · TREE AND SERPENT WORSHIP.
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In the North-Western Provinces the usual custom is for the head of the family to bathe on the morning of the feast, to paint on the wall of his sleeping-room two rude representations of serpents, and to make offerings to Brâhmans. On this day people pray to what Dr. Buchanan calls “the chief eight dragons of the pit,”133 girls throw some playthings into the water, and labourers take a holiday and worship the tools of their craft.