It ts somewhat of a pity that the book opens with this particular sub ject, for when the author proceeds deal with other aspects of superstition in India and the manner In which the fears of the commonalty are worked upon by the unscrupulous he touches a most interesting subject, It is probably inevitable that in the religious state in which the lower classes of India have found themselves for centuries, superstition should be £0. Hourishing as it is even in this day end aye, Many of the men who prey upon the credulity of their fellows ire no more than common prestidiagitators. or, failing that, people gifted With all the eloquent persuasiveness vf the confidence trickster, and where by reason of their religion the people s0 completely soaked in superstition, the men operating along those ines find it a particularly easy and fruitful eld, Thus in addition to the superstition racket there is a considerable amount of crime in India lossed over by all manner of abracadabra coming under the general heading of sorcery,
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