Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.271

v3.c43.t1.271

¹ [Examples of this magical expulsion of disease are common. At the Bhadrakālī temple at Nāsik a Māng woman, supposed to be possessed by the cholera goddess, when the epidemic prevails, is solemnly placed in a cart, and driven out of the city (*BG*, xvi. 520 f.). The Bhīls practise a similar rite, and Sleeman records the custom at Sāgar (C. E. Luard, *Ethnographic Survey Central India*, 49, 62; Sleeman, *Rambles*, 162), also see Crooke, *Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India*, 2nd ed. i. 141 f. ; Frazer, *The Golden Bough*, 3rd ed., *The Scapegoat*, 109 ff.]