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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Note 121 — Chapter III · TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.

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Among the Kols, when a vacancy occurs in the office of the village priest, the winnowing fan with some rice is used, and by its magical power it drags the person who holds it towards the individual on whom the sacred mantle has fallen. The same custom prevails among the Orâons.121

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