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Examples
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Misguided locals are known to perpetuate superstitious practices, such as the 'daliya fariyana', according to which tribals approach an 'ojha', or witch doctor, to unravel the causes behind a mishap, family problem, or natural disaster.
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The miscreants direct and bribe the 'ojha' to put the blame on a particular woman, whose property they are keen to usurp.
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Since an 'ojha' hardly ever gives a specific answer but only hints - for example, a woman who lives near the Peepul tree; or the woman with grey hair in that direction - gullible villagers are led to make an assumption.
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No one has dared to ask him whether he also learnt witchcraft from her but he himself admits that she taught him to be an _ojha_.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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At last one _ojha_ said that there was only one medicine which could effect a cure, but he saw no chance of obtaining it and that was human excrement 12 years old.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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"But perhaps the _ojha_ will be able to discover us," objected the other.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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Medicines were tried but had no effect; then they called in an _ojha_ and he told them that the _bonga_ to whom they had made the vow while out hunting had caused the illness and that if they did not fulfil the vow their brother would die.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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"Oh we can prevent that by making the _ojha_ see in the oiled leaf the faces of Rupi and Bindi -- naming two girls of the village -- and we can say that my husband had seduced them and then declined to marry them and that that was why they killed him."
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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They say that an old witch Dukkia taught him to be an _ojha_.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas
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"They [the villagers] called for an ojha [witch doctor] to ward off the spell."
BBC News - Home 2011
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