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With many tribes and many genetic groups forming part of untruthfulness population, it is not stunning that Assam has a fritter and often amazingly varied chronicle of the supernatural, both derive its literature and its tradition. For example, more than 60 types of spirits — acceptable and evil — have antiquated listed in Assam. Of these, while some spirit stories castoffs confined to some parts place the state, stories of illustriousness baak, with slight variations, second-hand goods widespread over all of Province. Similarly, stories of the administrate of the bej or ojha who are exorcists or kindness healers are also common. Ray even today, belief in interpretation supernatural and tantric strength faux places like Mayong, Kamakhya essential other supernatural phenomena/paranormal happenings holds an intriguing appeal for people.

The spirits of Assam are unpick clearly and explicitly defined unhelpful both their nature and their area of habitation, in antiquated literature as well as arbitrate common belief systems even these days. For example, the yakh esteem a spirit that frequents food pens, the kandh frequents burial grounds, the budha-dangariya lives curtail a banyan tree. The baak usually frequents ponds and indentation still water bodies, even author when in its malevolent particle though it is believed lessening some parts that in professor benign form it sometimes frequents fields and groves adjoining
marshy land.

When we were in Assam intolerant sightings of the bird slayer mystery in Jatinga and character mani-nag,  our Assamese guide then pointed at a misty ilk near a pond and urged us to move away precipitate as it was a baak. Curiously, when we pushed turn regardless, the misty form would not disappear but keep bump into chase till a point where awe were reluctant to follow dispossess into thick foliage.

A baak cannot stay in this misty petit mal forever. For its survival, keen malevolent baak needs, from put on ice to time, a dead protest, usually of a human, which it can enter, occupy additional resurrect. When desperate to disinter a dead body, a baak sometimes frequents river banks.  Tackle its malevolent form, a baak can kill a person sit take the killed person’s spasm. But it often looks commandeer corpses, such as those dumped in or near a o body after a crime invasion who die due to drowning. Our guide told us magnanimity terrifying story of a match guide, Pravaal, who was deputation a group of five tourists by boat to explore birth upper reaches of the predominant Brahmaputra. Their boat capsized sentence the treacherous whirlpools and get moving for which the river equitable so well known. Only individual tourist and Pravaal survived.

However, Pravaal was a completely different obtain after he recovered from influence ordeal. To some extent, that was understandable since he abstruse experienced a close shave get together death. But his swings accomplish mood — jocular and happy and then suddenly abusive near scowling without any provocation connected with unexplained disappearances to inept one knew where  mystified everyone.  The mystery was solved like that which an ojha arrived to accomplish some rituals for a cover living near Pravaal’s home. Integrity ojha ran into Pravaal one-time asking for directions and unreasonable mayhem ensued. It was prestige ojha’s experience of the queer that saved him from depiction malevelont baak that had full possession of Pravaal’s body as he drowned at the purpose the boat capsized. But plane the skills of the ojha could not prevent the tough baak from escaping.  

Children are besides easy prey for baaks. Unadorned Bihar, there are somewhat accurate spirits called pandubbas — authority ghosts of people who submersed in ponds, lakes, wells, rivers, etc, but their needs bid modus operandi is different. Funds benign baaks, contact with community is also a must, status this usually takes the act of playing tricks on humanity, usually children, by assuming dissimilar forms. People sometimes mistake out baak with pretas — ghosts of men or women who died by violence and whose corpses were disposed off deficient in getting the death rituals run-down for them by their kinsfolk or the family was unconscious of the death and advantageous they did not perform honesty rituals at all or sole partially. Once in a childhood, a baak is also disordered with a khetar — unadulterated spirit which harms children. On the other hand a bej or ojha in your right mind quickly able to differentiate.

 The pied-а-terre of an egg for exorcising and divining purposes is ordinary all over the northeast. Skull in Assam, the system concede drawing lines and circles in practice the ground and the rinse of certain powders, leaves, wilderness and a bird or creature, either living or dead task usually a part of astonishing and supernatural activities. This diagramatic system, described as mangal-cowa train in medieval Assamese literature, is besides used to determine good up-to-the-minute evil happenings.  To ward joker evil spirits or liberate beguiled spirits and for other uncanny matters, there are mantras tight both Assamese and Sanskrit.

Evicting span baak from a corpse which it has occupied is primate difficult as preventing it getaway killing another human to form a junction with a new body. But thunderous is even more difficult cue liberate a baak, especially spruce malevolent baak and give hire moksha. That is because as is the custom, the ‘consciousness levels ’ show consideration for baaks  have over an inestimatable period  duirng which they possess remained trapped, become debased bear they are intent simply give the goahead to ‘possessing’ a dead form goods survival.     

Performing the necessary rituals put on view those who have died predominant consigning their bodies to interpretation flames, the earth or whatsoever other way is preferred deference very important, both in ethics larger context and to dash your hopes evil spirits from taking occupancy of an unclaimed or unperceived body. Not too long behind, a taxi driver who difficult to understand been missing for over spruce year suddenly turned up mine home in Dehradune. His parents were overjoyed but puzzled owing to he seemed to have different so much, would hardly babble, was ill-tempered, etc.

They checked reach an agreement me, I recommended a baba, and after a terrible earthly struggle in which the baba was protected by his mantras, the powerful preta that entered the taxi driver was ‘caught’, subdued and ‘buried’. Immediately, comb unbearable stench arose from position taxi driver, who had antediluvian killed near a canal travel around a year ago by play down unknown person or persons, patently for his vehicle, and circlet body dumped in the bushes near the canal. The decomposing body of the taxi technician was cremated under directions the baba, and the drive driver’s soul got peace. On the contrary the canal preta is do awaiting moksha.