STRANGE INDIAN BELIEF.
WIDOW BURNS HERSEUF. A Hindu widow who burned herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre led the sessions judge at Damoh, between. Allahabad and Jubbulpore, to remark that the superstitious belief in suttee had not been wholly eradicated by British prohibition of the practice a century ago. The widow, distracted by her husband’s deatli, announced her intention to commit, suttee, and a large number of villagers assembled to see what some of them are still inclined to regard as an, act. of piety. A pyre bad been prepared for the dead man and the widow was found having her hair combed by her sister-in-law under a tree close by. When the mail’s body was already burning the woman flung herself into the flames beside him. She rolled off, badly burned, but was replaced on the pyre by two male relatives of her husband. These men were charged with murder, but were acquitted on the ground that there was evidence suggesting that the woman was dead when they finally committed her to the file.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12949, 14 May 1935, Page 7
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177STRANGE INDIAN BELIEF. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12949, 14 May 1935, Page 7
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