[24] The School Master of Chhatrāsa. [↑]

[25] The School Master of Luvaria. [↑]

[26] The School Master of Aman. [↑]

[27] The School Master of Todia. [↑]

CHAPTER X.

WITCHCRAFT.

Dākans are of two kinds, human and of the order of ghosts.[1]

Girls born in the Ashlesha nakshatra on the bij or second day of a month, in the Kritika nakshatra on the seventh day of a month and in the Shatabhigha nakshatra on the twelfth day of a month, are believed to be human dākans. They cause the death of their husbands, and their evil eye injures all things and individuals that come under its influence.[2]

Women who die in child-bed, meet an untimely death or commit suicide, become Dākans or Chudels after death.[2]