Show ghose in india f the deearl of ghosts so well known 1 alonci and comi tries is common in the aborigines india to an degree the same maybe said of their aryan conquerors and the lower classes of edans all indian ghosts are supposed to be mischievous and some of them bitterly malicious the only means employed to appease the rancor of thesa T spirits is to enild shrines to make them offerings such ns a fowl a pig and on grand occasion sa buffalo any severe illness and more especially any epidemic disease such as smallpox or cholera is attributed to the malig nancy of certain of these spirits which must be propitiated accordingly st louis |