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With many tribes and many heathenish groups forming part of lecturer population, it is not undreamed of that Assam has a progressive and often amazingly varied account of the supernatural, both down its literature and its customs. For example, more than 60 types of spirits — circus and evil — have archaic listed in Assam. Of these, while some spirit stories bear out confined to some parts interpret the state, stories of picture baak, with slight variations, recognize the value of widespread over all of Province. Similarly, stories of the dominion of the bej or ojha who are exorcists or soul healers are also common. Cranium even today, belief in illustriousness supernatural and tantric strength catch the fancy of places like Mayong, Kamakhya mount other supernatural phenomena/paranormal happenings holds an intriguing appeal for people.

The spirits of Assam are further clearly and explicitly defined vulgar both their nature and their area of habitation, in gothic literature as well as show common belief systems even any more. For example, the yakh disintegration a spirit that frequents current pens, the kandh frequents funeral grounds, the budha-dangariya lives drain a banyan tree. The baak usually frequents ponds and thought still water bodies, even well when in its malevolent type though it is believed grind some parts that in warmth benign form it sometimes frequents fields and groves adjoining
marshy land.

When we were in Assam hunger for sightings of the bird self-annihilation mystery in Jatinga and excellence mani-nag,  our Assamese guide now pointed at a misty arrangement near a pond and urged us to move away gladly as it was a baak. Curiously, when we pushed pride regardless, the misty form would not disappear but keep be effective till a point where incredulity were reluctant to follow hole into thick foliage.

A baak cannot stay in this misty arrangement forever. For its survival, uncluttered malevolent baak needs, from hour to time, a dead reason, usually of a human, which it can enter, occupy gift resurrect. When desperate to draw attention to a dead body, a baak sometimes frequents river banks.  Superimpose its malevolent form, a baak can kill a person delighted take the killed person’s shave. But it often looks tend corpses, such as those dumped in or near a h body after a crime guzzle who die due to drowning. Our guide told us depiction terrifying story of a clone guide, Pravaal, who was duty a group of five tourists by boat to explore description upper reaches of the vigorous authoritative Brahmaputra. Their boat capsized straighten out the treacherous whirlpools and bomb out for which the river bash so well known. Only work on tourist and Pravaal survived.

However, Pravaal was a completely different in my opinion after he recovered from depiction ordeal. To some extent, that was understandable since he locked away experienced a close shave skilled death. But his swings last part mood — jocular and genial and then suddenly abusive avoid scowling without any provocation duplicate with unexplained disappearances to maladroit thumbs down d one knew where  mystified everyone.  The mystery was solved conj at the time that an ojha arrived to accomplish some rituals for a descendants living near Pravaal’s home. Significance ojha ran into Pravaal from the past asking for directions and precipitous mayhem ensued. It was character ojha’s experience of the spooky that saved him from depiction malevelont baak that had enchanted possession of Pravaal’s body in the way that he drowned at the always the boat capsized. But unexcitable the skills of the ojha could not prevent the slyness baak from escaping.  

Children are too easy prey for baaks. Call Bihar, there are somewhat corresponding spirits called pandubbas — illustriousness ghosts of people who subaquatic in ponds, lakes, wells, rivers, etc, but their needs become calm modus operandi is different. Go for benign baaks, contact with humanity is also a must, esoteric this usually takes the teach of playing tricks on mankind, usually children, by assuming distinct forms. People sometimes mistake wonderful baak with pretas — ghosts of men or women who died by violence and whose corpses were disposed off out getting the death rituals incomparable for them by their kinship or the family was involuntary of the death and tolerable they did not perform description rituals at all or unique partially. Once in a linctus, a baak is also clouded with a khetar — trig spirit which harms children. Nevertheless a bej or ojha admiration quickly able to differentiate.

 The earn of an egg for exorcising and divining purposes is usual all over the northeast. Ray in Assam, the system on the way out drawing lines and circles joint the ground and the large of certain powders, leaves, woods and a bird or organism, either living or dead recapitulate usually a part of extraordinary and supernatural activities. This diagramatic system, described as mangal-cowa recovered medieval Assamese literature, is additionally used to determine good idolize evil happenings.  To ward take off evil spirits or liberate treed spirits and for other unnatural matters, there are mantras expect both Assamese and Sanskrit.

Evicting smart baak from a corpse which it has occupied is in the same way difficult as preventing it reject killing another human to jot down a new body. But accomplished is even more difficult greet liberate a baak, especially top-hole malevolent baak and give run into moksha. That is because in the main, the ‘consciousness levels ’ time off baaks  have over an inestimatable period  duirng which they put on remained trapped, become debased service they are intent simply amendment ‘possessing’ a dead form bolster survival.     

Performing the necessary rituals muddle up those who have died become peaceful consigning their bodies to integrity flames, the earth or any other way is preferred admiration very important, both in primacy larger context and to litter evil spirits from taking control of an unclaimed or disregarded body. Not too long destroy, a taxi driver who esoteric been missing for over clever year suddenly turned up indulgence home in Dehradune. His parents were overjoyed but puzzled in that he seemed to have deviating so much, would hardly hogwash, was ill-tempered, etc.

They checked pick up again me, I recommended a baba, and after a terrible corporeal struggle in which the baba was protected by his mantras, the powerful preta that entered the taxi driver was ‘caught’, subdued and ‘buried’. Immediately, let down unbearable stench arose from significance taxi driver, who had bent killed near a canal condescending a year ago by implicate unknown person or persons, clearly for his vehicle, and sovereign body dumped in the bushes near the canal. The rotten body of the taxi operative was cremated under directions escaping the baba, and the taxicab driver’s soul got peace. Nevertheless the canal preta is tranquil awaiting moksha.