This is done several times to make certain.
Then the deona declares he has done his work, and is usually treated to
the best dinner the sick man's friends can afford. It is said that the
person to whom the spirit by either of these methods is transferred may
not be affected for weeks or even months. But some fine day while he is
at his work, he will suddenly stop, wheel round two or three times on
his heels and fall down more or less convulsed, from that time forward
he will begin to be troubled in the same way as his dis-obsessed
predecessor was.
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* Tikli is a circular piece of gilt paper which is stuck on between the
eyebrows of the women of the Province as ornament.
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Having thus given some account of the deona, we now come to the bhagat,
called by the Hindus sokha and sivnath. This is the highest grade of
all, and, as I ought to have mentioned before, the 'ilm (knowledge) of
both the deona and bhagat grades is only to be learned by becoming a
regular chela of a practitioner; but I am given to understand that the
final initiation is much hastened by a seasonable liberality on the part
of the chela.
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