"Oh! Father, I swear, and if I swear falsely may I become shrivelled and dry like a blood-sucker, and die; may I be killed and eaten by a tiger; may I crumble away like the dust of this ant-hill; may I be blown away like this feather; may I be extinguished like this lamp."
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Khond oath, reported in John Kennedy, The Natural History of Man; or, Popular Chapters on Ethnography (London: John Cassell, 1851) vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 2, p. 92
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