1 A “Bengali ghusâ” is said to be a blow inflicted with the fist, the thumbnail protruding between the first and second finger so as to give a scratch! ↑
3 “gadân rai-hùi-nânai” = observing omens. ↑
6 A child from whose mouth milk oozes if you squeeze its throat. ↑
7 The Kachári version of the “Swan-maiden.” ↑
12 “Kumari,” the attendant nymph of the pool. ↑
13 The Kachári version of “Beauty and the Beast.” ↑
21 It was not true of him that “dígiti crepantis signa novit.” The coincidence of sound is curious. ↑
22 Seven “plough” of cattle. ↑
24 This exactly corresponds to our own “Fee faw fum; I smell the blood of an Englishman!” and the Bengali “Aù maù khaù, mánsher gandha paù!” ↑
25 Query—Assamese “hingsha.” ↑
26 The hideous Kuvera, god of wealth. He was a white man with three legs and eight teeth. Apparently, the same as the Hindu Pluto; and lord of the shades as well as of wealth. ↑