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knew how to control the passage of animal bodies into the human body, a practice that is called Parakays Pravesh. Since the two men were curious and inquiring, by habit, they decided to see for themselves whether or not there was any truth to the stories about the forest people.
After some asking about, the commissioner got a commitment from one of the forest people to take him and the judge to see a transformation by sound or sacred mantra. At a prearranged place, the two men met the forest dweller. Nearby, three women were singing and their beautifully musical voices were carried by the light wind through the sunlight to the three men. Without a word, the commissioner and the judge dismounted from their horses and the forest dweller then asked them to give him their guns.
Obeying their guide, the two men were then told to walk to the field where the three women were cutting hay. As they walked from the side of the forest dweller, an eerie, high pitched sound carried over their heads in the directions of the three women, communicating nothing the two men could understand. The sound, which had been made by the forest dweller, then became deeper and stronger, like that of a leopard or a tiger, and it sent chills up and down the spines of the two men. The sound then ended abruptly like a knife edge that had cut through a great knot, holding secret knowledge.
The men hesitated in their path, looking back toward
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