The City of Sunshine, Vol. 3 of 3

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from The City of Sunshine, Vol. 3 of 3: A NovelExpression of disgust. Rakshasas (ghouls), and all manner of unclean and evil spirits, hovered about the spot after dusk to pick up the souls of poor outcastes, and to torment the wretched naked spirits before they could find a refuge in some other body, whether human or brute. Through the thick j ungle-wood Madri could see the death-fires at night from the door of her but her solitude was cheered by the shrill wailing of the mourn ers, and her senses were enlivened by the rank odours of the funeral-pile. Fronting her dwelling, on the other side of the ravine, was a deep precipice, almost concealed by creepers, at the foot of which more than one dead body had been found, and which generally was the first place to be searched when any of the vil lagers was amissing. Suicide was Gangooly's invari able report upon these occasions, for no one would venture to make too minute an inquest upon an acci dent happening so close to the witch's dwelling.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.