The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3

by R. V. Russell

[8] Religion and Folklore of Northern India, vol. ii. p. 170.

[9] Crooke, Tribes and Castes.

[10] Saccharum spontaneum.

[11] Tribes and Castes, art. Birhor.

[12] The above instances are reproduced from Sir J. G. Frazer’s Psyche’s Task (London, 1909). These cases are all of homicide, but it seems likely that the action of the Khairwārs may be based on the same motives, as the fear of ghosts is strong among these tribes.

[13] Risley, loc. cit.

[14] Ethnology of Bengal, pp. 128, 129.

[15] Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, art. Khairwa. Quoting from Bombay Gazetteer, x. 48 and iii. 310.

[16] Loc. cit.