The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-13
STONE THROWING GHOST

Popular notion in India is that ghosts pelt stones. and I had an ocular demon stration of the fact It Was in the month of December eight years ago that l wit messed scene which proved that there are many things in earth and heaven that are not dreamt of in our philosophy. I was in the town of Deoghur in my own house situated in an open place. Close to my house was that of one Gonori Mahato. which also was situated In an open place. It came to my notice that ghosts had ap- peared in his house. Shortly after l had heard this saw Gornori himself. l asked him about the ghost and he said, Yes sir. it is a 'pichash" which means a ghost of very low degree.
 was a little surprised to hear this from him. For Gonori had become a Christian, and was not likely to put faith in the existence of ghosts, lower or high CT l. asked him what the ghost was do- ing in his house, but he was not com municative and went his way. l forgot all about it. when strange incident brought the pranks of this ghost again to my notice.
 Gonori being a milkman, supplied me with milk and an Ooria servant of mine went to fetch it. He was brought back almost in an unconscious state by a friend Gonori just before evening. I ask ed Shiva. the servant to exulain the req son of his sorrowful plight. He said after great effort, for he could scarcely utter a word, that hearing that ghosts were play ing mad pranks in the house of Gonori, he had gone to fetch the milk 8 little be- fore the usual time he used to bring It. that Is before the sun had gone down. Evening was just setting in, and he was coming with the milk, when, no sooner had he left Gonori's house, than a black and hideous thing" bounced upon him and inflicted a blow upon his breast, so that he fell senseless with groan. Gonori had invited a few friends to his house to pass the night with him to pro- tect him from the ''pichash," and thus. when they heard him groan, they came to his rescue and brought him home.
 On the following morning I went to Gonorrs house. which was about two minutes walk accompanied by two friends, both of them highly educated and intensely intellectual. His house, as I said before was situated in an open space only on one side of which there was a cluster of bamboo trees where the ghost might conceal himself. but even this would be Impossible in day time if he was fraud. On entering the house we found Rlrl aDOut lZ sweeping tHt ydTu W1in d broomstick the yard being surrounded with huts and walls. The other inmates of the house, Gonori. himself his mother about 70 his wife about 45. were all ab- sent Seeing that the girl was the only inmate of the house doing household work we went outside chatting at random, nearly forgetting all about the ghost My friends were a few yapds from me talking together. and I took this oppor- tunity of addressing the ghost in these words:
 sir ghost. if you are here please show yourself to us, for we are highly respec- table gentlemen and you should behave yourself properly with us."
 No sooner had said this than c1od of earth came rolling down the slope of the hut near which I was standing. This amused me greatly, for could not believe that 1t was actually ghost that had re- sponded to my call. So asked my friends