The Religion of the Kuvi-Konds

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Excerpt from The Religion of the Kuvi-Konds: Their Customs and Folk-Lore Stories concerning Paramushesa in the Folk-lore throw a bright light upon this character. Some of them are very touching, some of a real philosophical character. To understand the religion of these Konds, it is absolutely necessary to read their Folk-lore, in connection with the first part of this book. The ignorance and simplicity of this race is hard to comprehend. One small instance will serve to illustrate this. Once, on a certain day, when many of these Konds were standing in my office and I had to open my cash chest repeatedly, to meet a number of different payments, these Konds formed a group of interested spectators. They watched me, as I opened the chest, and putting my hand in extracted from the bag the exact number of rupees I required for each payment. After much deliberation and argument, as to how and whence this constant flow of silver rupees came, they decided that the chest possessed independent generating power of its own. "The "mother rupee" is hidden in there which brings forth all these rupees, " they said. This supports the story in Folk-lore of the Oilseller who attributed generating power to the beam of his house. If the publication of this little book succeeds in the object for which it was written, the Author will feel amply repaid for the trouble that he has had to overcome in its compilation, as he received all his information by personal association with these Konds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.