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Show INDIA'S LOWEST CASTE. By his fellow Hindoo tho Mang, one of the lowest of all Indian castes, Is not only despised but even feared nnd hated A writer In the Times of India In-dia says- "To be cruel Is to bo I "Mang-hearted," to fly Into a paslon mav be expressed In Marathe Idiom as having a Inng within one. " When on the occasion of an eclipse fears are awakened for the safety of the sun or moon, it Is the Mang whoso help Is sought He goes among the people claiming their prooltlatorv gifts, saying- "Give your giits that the grasp may bo removed. For are not Rahu nnd Kotu. the enemies who have laid ovll hands on the heavenly i p2 bodies, themselves Mangs1" Similar- - g? ly, to their recognized relation with "dark" worship and with subterranean and demoniac influences is to be trac ' cd the making of offerings to Mang ' H women on Dasera day and the slnls- ' H tor fact that thorc arc few great build- 1 j Ings erected In pre-Brltlsh days In this j Hi part of India that have not whether j. R they be temples or forts or palaces Mang victims built Into their founda flj5 tlons. WM "The peculiar place that these pop hi ular superstitions have given to the Mj "Mang community is seen especially Kg in tho ceremonies that are sometimes i,te performed for the removal of disease j fc Frequently when someone has fallen f Ijj ill a Joshl is consulted and explains i' m the illness as due to the influence of lj. somo evil spirit. The one effective 5 prescription in such a case is to call :; f a Mang and give him a dinner ThlB gj is not by any means an act of frlendli- . 5 ness toward a doepbied community. t r but has as its object apparently the J jj propitiation of tho domenlac power V re- and "tho removal of tho disease from l the 6lck man to Its proper habitation. t -jr "W'th this ond in view practices of 1 . sympathetic magic, which can be j LJ parajolled In the folk-lore of many j K peoples, aro employed. Portions of j, Jr the pnger nails or, It may be, frag- j S raentB of hair of the invalid are se- ,' 2 crotly mixed witlTthc food to be gi en j( to the Mang, and beforo the sugar- ; JS . water of which ho Ib to partake is I J given to him the sick man must see " hiD face in IL In thlB way tho evil f S Is supposed to be passed hack to 2f whore ll properly helongB and the dis- W obbo removed." Chicago Nowb. f JJJ 1 I& |