The Thugs Or Phansigars of India: Comprising a History of the Rise and Progress of that Extraordinary Fraternity of Assassins, and a Description of the System which it Pursues and of the Measures which Have Been Adopted by the Supreme Government of India for Its SuppressionCarey & Hart, 1839 - Hindi language |
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Page 135 - If any man swears to a falsehood upon a pick-axe, properly consecrated, we will consent to be hung if he survives the time appointed ; appoint one, two or three days when he swears, and we pledge ourselves that he does not live a moment beyond the time ; he will die a horrid death ; his head will turn round, his face towards the back, and he will writhe in tortures till he dies.
Page 79 - A Thug considers the persons murdered precisely in the light of victims offered up to the goddess ; and he remembers them, as a Priest of Jupiter remembered the oxen, and a Priest of Saturn the children sacrificed upon their altars. He meditates his murders without any misgivings; he perpetrates them without any emotion of pity ; and he remembers them without any feelings of remorse.
Page 38 - Mysore, in 1799, to 1807 and 1808, the practice, in that part of India, reached its height, and that hundreds of persons were annually destroyed. In one of his reports, the magistrate of Chittoor observes, " I believe that some of the Phansigars have been concerned in above two hundred murders: nor will this estimate appear extravagant, if it be remembered that murder was their profession — frequently their only means of gaining a subsistence. Every man of fifty years of age has probably been actively...
Page 45 - They have another cunning trick, also, to catch travellers with. They send out a handsome woman upon the road, who, with her hair dishevelled, seems to be all in tears, sighing and complaining of some misfortune which she pretends has befallen her. Now, as she takes the same way that the...
Page 81 - ... to come near one upon the road. The cunningest robbers in the world are in that country. They use a certain slip with a running noose, which they can cast with so much sleight about a man's neck, when they are within reach of him, that they never fail, so that they strangle him in a trice.
Page 25 - It sometimes happens that a party oi travellers, consisting of several persons, and possessed of valuable effects are, while journeying in imaginary security, suddenly cut off ; and the lifeless and despoiled bodies being removed and interred, not a vestige of them appears.* Instances are said to have occurred, of twelve and fourteen persons being simultaneously destroyed.
Page 95 - FERINGEEA. 95 rupees, was brought in to me at Saugor in December, 1830, he told me, that if his life were spared he could secure the arrest of several large gangs who were in February to rendezvous at Jypore, and proceed into Guzerat and Candeish.
Page 18 - Choultries on the high roads, or near to towns where travellers are wont to rest. They arrive at such places and enter towns and villages in straggling parties of three or four persons, appearing to meet by accident and to have had no previous acquaintance. On such occasions, some of the gang are employed as emissaries to collect information, and especially to learn if any persons with property in their possession are about to undertake a journey. They are often accompanied by children of ten years...
Page 146 - ... worth of property in jewels and other things with them, we let her and all her party go : we had talked to her and felt love towards her, for she was very beautiful.
Page 20 - ... before the murdered body is buried, some artifice is practised to prevent discovery, such as covering the body with a cloth, while loud lamentations are made, professedly on account of the sickness or death of one of their comrades; or one of the watchers will fall down, apparently writhing with pain, in order to excite the pity of the intruding travellers, and to detain them from the scene of murder. Such are the perseverance and caution of the Thugs, that, in the absence of a convenient opportunity,...