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SEPTEMBER, 1895.]
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS.
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In addition to their luckiness or spirit-housing power as being simply naked, figures in the act of sexual union, or, in a later form Mahadeva's favourite home, the symbols of the united male and female organs, have faurther power to tempt spirits to lodge in them. It may be said that the attractiveness to spirits of figures in union, or of the emblems of union, is nothing more than enticing the spirit to enter into the act which had been one of its chief human pleasures. But it is doubtful if this common sense view is the true explanation of the belief that the representation of the act of sexual union has special spirit-drawing power. Because the passion or possession that accompanies the act of union, and still more the experience that the result of the union is the framing of a new human being, the calling a soul from out the vast and striking a being into bounds, must have impressed the conviction that the moment of sexual union is the chief of gpirit-housing times. The other early belief, that the spirit of a dead relative comes back into the new-born babe's body, must bave still further enforced the belief that sexual union was one of the chief spirit-housing conditions. The likeness to some one dead, which later thought traces to the handing down of certain physical strains, proves to the early man that in the child lives the dead relation whom the child resembles. This seems to be the chief consideration why representations or symbols of sexual anion are believed to be specially tempting ancestorlodgings, and are therefore specially lucky and worshipful.
(To be continued.)
THE DEVIL WORSHIP OF THE TULUVAS. FROM THE PAPERS OF THE LATE A. C. BURNELL.
(Continued from page 244.) BURNELL MSS. No. 15 - (continued). THE STORY OF KOTI AND CHANNAYYA - (continued). As they were going, the Balla! sent & man to say to them :"If you defeat in battle an elephant, a horse, and an army, too, I shall give you a mura of rice."
“Your servants get, as a present, a sêr of rice," said Koţi and Channayya.
"Do you, heroes, fight with an elephant and with a horse, and defeat nine lakhs of men, and I will give you as a present a mura of rice. I shall send my servant to you. Be, at that time, with Little Channayya.
A man was sent to fetch the heroes from the Eqambar Baidya's house. They went to the Balla! and saluted him. Five hundred elephants were loosed to fight with the heroes of Edambûr.
"If you come with justice, I will shew you & road to my heart, but if you come with injustice, I will cut you into pieces, like bees," said Channayya.
A troop of horses was brought out to them, but Channayya mounted on a horse, and killed it, by pressing it so that it vomited up its food.
"The elephant is defeated and the horse is defeated, but the nine idklus of men remain,' said Channayya to his master,
The younger brother himself killed the nine lakhs of men by his might. It was difficult even for the Ballâl himself to remain alive.
"I will give you a present, Channayya !" said the Edambúr Ballâl, and presented the heroes with land at Ekanadka.
"We want land that has been fallow for sixty years and on which wild plants and herbs have been growing for thirty years," said the brothers, and took their leave.
The land at Ekanadka was presented to them. They went there, made a plan, and built palace. The palace was built with five hundred rooms below, with an upper story in the
