If a person in sleep responds to the call of an owl, he is believed to expire within six months from that date.[170]
If an owl screeches every night for six months on one’s house or an adjacent tree, a terror seizes the members of the house that some sure and certain calamity not short of death is imminent.[171]
An owl sitting on the house of a person and screeching is said to be uttering threats or forebodings of calamities and misfortunes, and is believed to foretell the death of some near relative or of a member of the household.[172]
If a miser dies after accumulating vast treasures, his spirit becomes a ghost or a snake and guards his wealth.[173]
According to another belief, a miser dying without an heir becomes a snake to guard his treasure.[174]
It is believed that such treasures are accessible to batrisas[175] (those possessed of thirty two accomplishments).
Those persons that die while ousted from the houses built by them become ghosts, and, residing in the houses, do not allow any body to live therein, and leave them only when they are demolished.[176]
Some evil spirits guard treasures in the form of drones.[177]
It is related that there is a pond called Lakhota near Jamvādi in Gondal. It contains a treasure guarded by a cobra which tries to bite whosoever attempts to remove it.[178]
The Janchar, Bhuchar, Jin and some other spirits are believed to haunt valleys.[179]