A JUNGLE GOD.
I MAYOR WORSHIPPED. BECAUSE HE LOST AN ARM. (Special—By Air Mall) LONDON, October 29. The man who has just been elected for the second time Mayor of Croydon, Surrey, disclosed this week that he is a god, hut not in his own country. Councillor E. C. Stuart-Baker, 74, of Upper Norwood, London, is a real god, still worshipped by hundreds of tribespeople in the jungles of NorthEast India. This former Inspector-General of Police for Eastern Bengal and Assam was elevated to his "immortality" because the natives were worried when he lost his left arm in an encounter with a leopard. According to their beliefs, anyone who has lost a limb or an eye will not go to heaven when they die. So a« to ensure Mr. StuaTt-Bakcr's certain transit to glory they made him a god of agriculture. Mr. Stuart-Baker said: "There was no ceremony attached to my being made a god —-the head tribesman simply told me that his people had decided to make me one—to be for ever worshipped." === I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 281, 28 November 1938, Page 11
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175A JUNGLE GOD. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 281, 28 November 1938, Page 11
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