St. Corona: Patron Saint of Epidemics (video)

Reuters.com, March 25, 2020 (updated 3/26/20); Santiebeati.it; KRQE News 13, 3/22/20; Crass; and Wiki edited by Pfc. Sandoval, Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

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St. Corona in a Book of Hours, Paris, circa 1480

Local artists are looking to the ancient St. Corona, a 16-year-old martyr, for help after the Coronavirus outbreak stalls their business.

The Internet is abuzz because the Holy Roman Catholic Church, with its CEO in the Vatican Corporation offices, has just unearthed a long forgotten female saint, St. Corona.

The buzz is that she was the "patron saint of epidemics," as reported last night by dimwitted Government Operative George Noory on this country's largest radio station (coasttocoastam.com, 3/25/20). She, along with Saint Victor, was originally the patron saint of treasure hunting and money.

• The Buddha is also a "Christian saint": St. Josaphat (the Jataka Tales' Bodhisat) in Catholic and Greek Orthodox traditions, and they can't take it back. Strange but true

Saints Victor and Corona

But about 1000 AD, Otto III brought St. Corona's relics to Aachen in western Germany. Though evidence is scarce that she was invoked against epidemics, Reuters reports that indeed she is "patron saint of epidemics" (reuters.com).

Moreover, according to Reuters, her relics will be available for public veneration "once the coronavirus pandemic has passed."

(Pray Unceasingly) Prayer to Saint Corona for protection against plague

(Crass w/ Eve Libertine) "Reality Asylum" unprayer. WARNING: not suitable
for Christian ears because it condemns sexist, war-loving religion via its icon.

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St. Corona

Victor and Corona's memorial day is November 24 (Nov. 11 on the Greek Orthodox Church calendar). Their feast day is May 14 [about the time this pandemic should have faded away].

In northern Italy, outside the town of Feltre, on the slopes of Mt. Miesna, there is a Church of Saints Vittore e Corona (santiebeati.it), erected by the murderous European Crusaders from Feltre after the First Christian/Catholic Crusade that set out to kill infidel foreigners.

St. Corona is venerated in Austria and eastern Bavaria, where she is invoked in connection with superstitions involving money, such as gambling and treasure hunting ("German cathedral dusts off relics of St. Corona, patron of epidemics," reuters.com, March 25, 2020). More

What PSYCHICS saw: COVID-19 (video)

Be Inspired, March 24, 2020; Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; CNN; ET
The views, information, or opinions expressed in video are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Be Inspired Channel, the primary purpose of which is to educate and inform. This channel does not constitute medical or other professional advice.

Was it created in U.S. or Wuhan labs? Coronavirus COVID-19 predictions

You will obey and not question civil authorities!

It can't all be psychic intuition, as Dean Koontz just researched the most likely scenario (or was fed it by someone high up). Did Nostradamus write a quatrain about it? Did Fatima whisper? Did the Tibetan Oracle tell the current Dalai Lama?

O, Mystic Masters, tell us what is really real.

Another psychic went on Coast to Coast (3/24/20) to tell two-face host Noory that she saw a disease being "unleashed." She emphasized that exact word. At that time swine flu had been launched as a sort of test run to terrify the world. But she foresaw something much bigger around 2020.

Cardi B and other laughable items from sensational entertainment media

But Sylvia Browne, who published her prediction in a book, described this flu in detail and said it would suddenly disappear, as it's doing. Governments must be shutting off their 5G, a primary cause of this illness. But she says it will return ten years later.

Controlled media (CNN) mocks 2020 "predictions" that barely came true.

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These sound like planned deployments of new and virulent bioweapons more than natural disease processes etiologists know about. Flu pandemics have radio, radar, and microwave radiation bombardment like 4G and 5G wifi as their basis. See Dr. Thomas Cowan, MD, science-activist Arthur Firstenberg, Dr. Devra Davis, psychic Rudolf Steiner, and Stop5G.net for ample evidence the mainstream media will not be talking about.

• Social media censorship: Free speech has to stop so that government and industry can take control like a dictatorship (The Guardian)

Meditation: Sundays on Zoom (video)

Heights I.T., March 21, 2020; Ananda, Jen (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Wisdom Quarterly

I could see you on Zoom, but I forgot you could see me, too, so I went to the bathroom.

Dharma Buddhist Meditation, Sundays, 9:00-12:00 PM live from Los Angeles

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I forgot could see me as I went to the toilet.

"Poor Jennifer!" It's nicer to meditate in a group than to work. But video conferencing can go wrong. Jen Miles had to use the bathroom on a Zoom conference call. She filmed herself as she pulled down her pants and went at it. Epic fail.

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ZOOM MEDITATION: American Buddhist nun and bestselling author Pema Chodron is the core of Shambhala, so on Sundays we sit with the L.A. group.

What? Short sits of tranquility meditation. This alternates with a gong that signals mindful walking. At 11:00 am we read and discuss Pema's newest book, Welcoming the Unwelcome. Free/by donation. Beginners welcome. Instruction available. Drop in for any part of it, and leave whenever. RSVP.

• Zoom log in information
• Every Sunday morning, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
• Dharma Buddhist Meditation @ Shambhala LA

Facebook CENSORING your content (video)

Timcast IRL, 2/27/20; Organic Prepper; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Social media networks vow to censor "misinformation" about coronavirus (TOP).

Is Facebook run by FBI or CIA?

Facebook CENSORSHIP is terrifying and could make the effects of coronavirus worse. Using coronavirus fears as the pretext, Facebook is clamping down like the private arm of a police state -- industry supporting the military and public government -- on whatever it labels "misinformation." It has expressed its intention to BAN all content that they deem is "designed to create a sense of urgency" about the [epidemic] virus. Tim and Adam wonder if this is the worst approach, considering the potential for a growing [pandemic] outbreak.

[Facebook, according to one of its vice presidents on scpr.org, is hiding behind a cadre of 55 hired "fact checkers" or contractors who know what their real job is. No free speech, only government-approved speech.]

• VIDEO: The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies: Healing with Plants (bookofremedies.org)
• COVID-19 LA to shelter in place for months from March 2020
• Info about coronavirus from US or Wuhan is being CENSORED by Facebook, social media, TikTok, Twitter, WeChat...

My quarantine life in Rome, Italy (video)

Elisabetta Abrami (BBC.com/reel...); Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(BBC) Coronavirus Inside the mind of an Italian girl in lockdown

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Inside the mind of a girl in lockdown

(March 23, 2020) Elisabetta Abrami is 32, single, who loves travel and friends. Now, like the rest of Italy, she’s stuck inside in her small apartment in Rome. Here's a sincere diary of her first week amid moving moments, hilarious practical matters, fears, and hopes. Filmed and directed by Elisabetta Abrami and produced by Anna Bressanin. VIDEO

Free cloud storage? It's data mining (video)

What Passes for Progressive; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Wynn in Solon, Maine calls to save the day with something smart to say, as Thom goes off the rails reading his right wing media blogs.

Beyond the [Silicon] Valley

Smarmy sellout, sincere broadcaster, useful idiot, what is Thom Hartmann? His program is played on Pacifica Free Speech Radio (KPFK.org, 90.7 FM) mornings in LA, and he was on subversive RT. An extreme moderate and a big disappointment is what he seems like most of the time. But he has moments of clarity. His Book Club selections are well chosen. Today it's Beyond the Valley by Ramesh Srinavasan. Good going, Uncle. Thom is trying to stay on air from his luxurious home in Seattle, pretending he's saving the world, sometimes "daring" to criticize Trump. *Yawn* We need more Lee Camp (Redacted Tonight) and Samantha Bee (Full Frontal). Even Seth Meyers (Late Night) gets more edgy than this. Step it up or step aside, Hartmann, and stop compromising and embarrassing progressives at every turn.

"When Things Fall Apart" (Pema Chodron)

Ani Pema (Pema Chodron Foundation); Goodreads; Crystal Q. (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön's teaching are very practical. That's why she's a beloved spiritual author.

She collected talks she gave between 1987 and 1994 to create When Things Fall Apart. This is heart advice for difficult times, a treasury of wisdom for living when overcome by pain and worry.

• She discusses using painful emotions to cultivate wisdom, compassion, and courage 
• communicating so as to encourage others to open up rather than shut down 
• practices for reversing habitual patterns 
• methods for working with chaotic situations 
• ways for creating effective social action... More

• (4.3 out of 5 from 25,426 ratings), 1,475 reviews 
  

  • SEE QUOTES from When Things Fall Apart

What were the Buddha's last words?

Sister Vajira, Francis Story (trans.), Maha-Parinibbana Sutra: "Last Days of the Buddha" (accesstoinsight.org, DN 16) edited by Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly

Part VI: Passing Away: The Buddha's final words

1. Now the Blessed One said, "Ananda, it may be that to some among you the thought will come: 'Ended is the word of the Teacher; we have a Teacher no longer.'

"But, Ananda, it should not be considered in this way. For what I have proclaimed and made known as the Doctrine and Discipline (Dhamma-Vinaya), that shall be your Teacher when I am gone [beyond].

2. "And, Ananda, though now the monastics address one another as 'friend,' let it not be so when I am not here. The senior monastics, Ananda, may address the junior ones by their name, their family name, or as 'friend,' but the junior ones should address the senior ones as 'venerable sir' or 'your reverence ' [Note 55].

3. "Ananda, when I am no longer here, if it is desired, the Sangha (Monastic Community) may abolish the lesser and minor rules [56].

4. "And, Ananda, when I am gone [beyond], let the higher punishment be imposed on the monk Channa" [57].

"But, venerable sir, what is the 'higher punishment'?"

"The monk Channa, Ananda, may say what he will, but the monastics should neither converse with him nor exhort him nor admonish him."

There were monastics and many more devas.

5. Then the Blessed One addressed the monastics, saying: "It may be, monastics, that one of you is in doubt or perplexity as to the Buddha, the Dharma, or the Sangha, the path or the practice. If that is so then raise a question, monastics! Do not feel remorse later with the thought, 'The Teacher was with us face to face, yet we failed to ask him.'"

6. But when this was said, the monastics were silent. And a second and a third time the Blessed One said to them, "It may be, monastics, that one of you is in doubt or perplexity as to the Buddha, the Dharma, or the Sangha, the path or the practice. If that is so then raise a question, monks! Do not feel remorse later on with the thought, 'The Teacher was with us face to face, yet we failed to ask him.'"

And for a second and a third time the monastics were silent. Then the Blessed One said to them, "Monastics, it may be out of respect for the Teacher that you ask no questions. Then, monastics, let friend communicate it to friend." Yet still the monastics were silent.

7. Then Ananda said to the Blessed One, "O, venerable sir, it is marvelous and most wonderful! This confidence I have in the community of monastics, that not even one monastic is in doubt or perplexity as to the Buddha, the Dharma, or the Sangha, the path or the practice."

"You speak out of confidence (faith), Ananda, but here the Tathagata knows for certain that among this community of monastics there is not even one monastic who is in doubt or perplexity as to the Buddha, the Dharma, or the Sangha, the path or the practice. For, Ananda, among this large number (500) even the lowest is a stream-enterer, secure from downfall, assured, and bound for enlightenment."

8. And the Blessed One addressed them, saying: "Behold now, monastics, I exhort you: All compounded things are hurtling toward destruction. Strive with earnestness!" [58]

This was the last word of the Tathagata (the Wayfarer, the One Arrived at Suchness, the Thus Come/Thus Gone One, the Buddha).

How the Buddha passed into final-nirvana

9. And the Blessed One entered the first absorption (jhana). Rising from the first absorption, he entered the second absorption. Rising from the second absorption, he entered the third absorption. Rising from the third absorption, he entered the fourth absorption. And rising out of the fourth absorption, he entered the sphere of boundless space (the fifth absorption). Rising from the attainment of the sphere of boundless space, he entered the sphere of boundless consciousness (sixth absorption). Rising from the attainment of the sphere of boundless consciousness, he entered the sphere of nothingness (seventh absorption). Rising from the attainment of the sphere of nothingness, he entered the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception (eighth absorption). And rising out of the attainment of the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, he attained to the extinction of perception and feeling.

10. Then Ananda commented, "Venerable Anuruddha, the Blessed One has passed away."

"No, friend Ananda, the Blessed One has not passed away. He has entered the state of the extinction of perception and feeling" [59].

Dimensional travel: all across the universe

11. Then the Blessed One, rising from the extinction of perception and feeling, entered the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception, he entered the sphere of nothingness. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of nothingness, he entered the sphere of boundless consciousness. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of boundless consciousness, he entered the sphere of boundless space. Rising from the attainment of the sphere of boundless space, he entered the fourth absorption. Rising from the fourth absorption, he entered the third absorption. Rising from the third absorption, he entered the second absorption. Rising from the second absorption, he entered the first absorption (jhana).

Rising from the first absorption, he entered the second absorption. Rising from the second absorption, he entered the third absorption. Rising from the third absorption, he entered the fourth absorption. And, rising from the fourth absorption, the Blessed One immediately passed into final nirvana.

The World's Echo

12. And when the Blessed One had passed into final nirvana, simultaneously there came a tremendous earthquake, hair raising and astounding, and thunder rolled across the skies. More

NOTES: 55. In Pali, "friend" is avuso, "venerable sir" = bhante, "your reverence" = ayasma.

56. Because Ananda, at this point, neglected to ask what the "minor" rules were, the Sangha decided not to abolish any of the rules of the Monastic Disciplinary Code (Vinaya).
57. Channa had been the Buddha's charioteer when he was still Prince Siddhartha in the palace in Shakya Land [Scythia]. Because of his prior connection with the Buddha, he was obstinate and refused to submit to discipline. This imposition of the "higher punishment" (brahmadanda, "supreme stick or cudgel") humbled him into a cooperative and unhaughty monastic.
58. Handa dani bhikkhave amantayami vo: Vayadhamma sankhara appamadena sampadetha. Earnestness (appamada) is explained as "presence of mindfulness." The Commentary explains, "'You should accomplish all your duties without allowing mindfulness to lapse!' Thus did the Blessed One, while on the bed of his final nirvana, summarize in that one word earnestness the advice he had given through 45 years [of his teaching ministry]."
59. Ven. Anuruddha, the elder brother of Ananda, knew this through the super-normal ability to read the minds of others he possessed.

Ajahn Chah: How to find right understanding

Ajahn Chah (ajahnchah.org) via Ven. Sujato, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

What? Are you serious, that's how I find noble "right view"? There has to be another way!

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When, not if. (Pema Chodron)

How can you find right understanding? I can answer you simply by using this glass I'm holding.

It appears to be clean and useful, something to drink from and keep for a long time, right? "Right understanding" is to see this as a broken glass, as if it has already shattered. Sooner or later it will shatter and lie destroyed.

This glass is as good as broken, so use it.

If you keep this understanding in mind while using it -- that all it is is a combination of elements which have come together in this form to break apart in line with nature -- then no matter what happens to the glass, you'll have no problem.

This body is similar to this glass. It is also going to break apart. We die. You have to understand that.

This one, too, and the bottle...and this body.

Yet when you do, it doesn't mean you should go kill yourself, just as you shouldn't take that useful glass and shatter it or throw it away before it's served its usefulness.

The glass is something to make use of until it falls apart -- in its own natural way. This right understanding can make you free in all the changing circumstances of the entire world.

THE BUDDHA'S LASTS WORDS: "All things (that depend on conditions) are hurtling towards destruction; work out your awakening with diligence" (DN 16).

"Open are the doors to the deathless (nirvana)" (MN 26), so make an end of rebirth and death.

Jello: The Dead Kennedys were right (video)

Jello Biafra; Dead Kennedys; Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Lead singer Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys

WWJD? What would Jello do? Jello Biafra is a genius, but too principled for most music lovers. The band the Dead Kennedys could have been big if they had agreed to change their name or comprised in many other ways.

Eventually, in the end, the other members had to make money from their hit songs.

Jello said no to selling out. He had his own label, Alternative Tentacles, to pay the bills. So they got someone else to stand in on tour (as the audience did most of the singing), and they hit the road.

My t-shirt says something to believe in.

The DKs foresaw many things that are happening now. They happened before but never so blatantly. Once in L.A. before a Democratic convention, they played a free concert in a downtown parking lot. The police raided it, shooting people with deadly projectiles (rubber bullets and beanbag rounds) as they ran away terrified.

It was mayhem started by the LAPD, as usual, overreacting as a "show of force." The mainstream media didn't report that side of riots because who dares question police authority in favor of punks or peaceful demonstrators? Certainly not the LA Times or local news stations. Therefore, officers knew they could get away with it -- the same way

(DKs) "California Uber Alles" (Pt. 1) from Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

• they get away with rape
• racist enforcement of select laws
• plant evidence
• beat black motorists (Rodney King and many before him)
• lie on the witness stand
• ignore counter-evidence.

(Alternative Tentacles) "Pandemic"? What would Jello do now? Let's ask

He's watching by cell phone.

It's not easy policing such a big city with such a small force, with a police to citizen ratio much smaller than a comparable city like New York. So city officials let them get away with it through the administrations of many police chiefs, paying out tens of millions in settlements to avoid lawsuits in the most egregious cases of crimes committed under color of law.

Now the City of Los Angeles has the lockdown it always dreamed of. This looks like the "power trip" our police force was always on. People aren't afraid of "the enemy" enough. Pres. Trump is doing an asinine job as commander and chief. Youthful partygoers, yearning for spring break, keep flaunting this epidemic scare. It's as if they intuit that it's BS and we're not being told what's really going on. So it looks like Martial Law is on the horizon under one pretense or another. "The people demand it."

(Dead Kennedys) "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" (which is "California Uber Alles Part 2")

Mayor Garcetti: Love LA. Obey me. I'm leader.

Mayor Garcetti almost announced martial law on Sunday night. Mainstream media news reporters taunt him to impose fines at scofflaws, arrest kids at the beach, punish them, scare some sense into them, call them "selfish" for infecting no one by not staying six feet from each other. He'll crackdown soon.

Real rebellion is from the inside out.

It's the carrot and the stick. He's been promising carrots, so the dissatisfied need a stick. When there are more tests forced on everyone, who are as of today required to show government ID to be tested, the jump in reported cases will scare the living heck out of the population.

They'll demand citizens like themselves be punished for disobeying what is not an infection but an illness brought about by microwave radiation. See Dr. Thomas Cowan's 10 minute talk at the March 2020 Health and Human Rights Summit in Arizona (freedomsphoenix.com).

Public Enemy: Prophets of Rage (doc)

Public Enemy (BBC Four) via ATC2, 8/12/12; Crystal Q., Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

This is a classic documentary on one of the most explosive and influential bands in American history, melding old funk with a new sound still influencing hip and rap and rock. Public Enemy changed the world. Here's how they did it.

Biden's wins are a mathematical impossibility

Host comedian Jimmy Dore, guest Democratic politician Professor of Law Timothy Canova (jimmydorecomedy.com); Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I won like by that much. Well, the DNC establishment did. We cheated Bernie like Hillary did.

Boo: What are ghosts ("bhoots," poltergeists)?

Bhoot; Bhootiya Story; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit

Hungry ghost seen by Buddhist monk on alms

A bhoot or bhuta (Sanskrit भूत, bhūta) is a supernatural creature, a poltergeist or "noisy spirit," usually the ghost of a deceased person in the popular culture, literature, and ancient sacred texts of the Indian subcontinent [Note 1].

Buddhism recognizes the existence of "hungry ghosts" (Sanskrit pretas, Pali petas) living in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts (peta loka) alongside the human world, reborn there as a karmic result of strong attachment and lack of merit.

They can be distinguished from ordinary "ghosts" or gandharvas (Pali gandhabbas) transitioning in an intermediate state yet to be reborn after a human life, as in the concept of the bardo.

Interpretations of how bhoots come into existence vary by region and community. But they are usually considered to be perturbed and restless -- ungrateful dead and shapeshifting goblins of European folklore -- due to some factor that prevents them from moving on (to the next rebirth destination).

This factor could be a violent death, unsettled matters in their lives, or simply the failure of their survivors to perform proper funeral rituals.

Cultural tradition

The belief in unseen spirits and ghosts is deeply ingrained in the minds of the people of India across generations. The various concepts of ghosts trace their roots to the vast bodies of Hindu (Vedic) mythology, its religious texts, literature, and folktales.

There are many allegedly haunted places in India, such as cremation grounds... Ghosts also occupy a significant place in Bengali culture. Various supernatural entities form an integral part of the socio-cultural beliefs of both Hindu and Muslim communities of rural Bengal.

Fairy tales often use the concept of ghost, and references to paranormal activities are found amply in modern-day Bengali literature, cinema, radio, and TV.

Etymology and idiom

Bhūta is a Sanskrit term that carries the connotations of "past" and "being" [2] and, because it has connection with "one of the most wide-spread roots in Indo-European — namely, *bheu/*bhu-," has similar-sounding cognates in virtually every branch of that language family, for example, Irish (bha), English (be [and perhaps boo]), Latvian (but), and Persian (budan) [3, 4].

Characteristics of bhoots

To be killed unfairly or with a grudge

Bhoots are shapeshifters: They are able to alter and assume forms of various humans or animals at will. But they are usually seen in human form [8]. However, their feet often reveal them to be ghosts, floating above the ground or turned backwards [9].

As the earth is regarded as sacred or semi-sacred in many traditions of the Indian subcontinent, bhoots go to lengths to avoid contact with it, often floating above it, either imperceptibly or up to a foot above [9]. Bhoots cast no shadows and speak with a nasal twang [10]. They often lurk on specific trees...

Thwarting bhoots

Ancient Japanese drawings of hungry ghosts

In many regions, bhoots are supposed to fear water and steel or iron objects, so keeping those nearby is believed to scare them off [13]. Iron cross on a church? The scent of burnt turmeric is also said to ward them off [10].

As is typical of ghosts throughout the world, invoking the name of holy figures and deities is also said to repel bhoots. In some regions, sprinkling earth on oneself is said to shield against bhoots [14].

According to Dharmic mythology, a soul (atman, spirit, self, consciousness) cannot be destroyed by any means. As a bhoot is just a deceased, lost, or angry soul/spirit, Hindu exorcists do not (or cannot) destroy them.

Instead, they perform a ritual according to the Atharva Veda ("Knowledge Storehouse of Everyday Life") called atma-shanti, which is just a modified Shraadh or Śrāddha (death anniversary) done by those haunted by the bhoot to promise it that everything in their power will be done to either assure the successful rebirth of the bhoot or finish the works left incomplete by the bhoot (or both).

Thus, the bhoot gets what it wants and stops troubling those haunted by it forever [15].

Bhutas

These poltergeists or restless ghosts of the departed are thought to be the spirits of defied heroes. They are fierce and evil spirits of Hindu deities and of animals, and so on. They are wrongly referred to as "ghosts" or "demons" when, in fact, they are often protective and benevolent beings.

Though it is true that they can cause harm in their violent forms, as they are extremely powerful, they can be pacified through worship or offerings referred to as Bhuta Aradhana [16]. [The same seems to be true of related hybrid-human ogres known as yakshas and rakshasas]. More

1. Britannica; Dale Hoiberg; Indu Ramchandani (2000), Students' Britannica India, Volumes 1-5, Popular Prakashan, 2000. Bhut also spelt bhoot, in Hindu mythology, a restless ghost. Bhoots are believed to be malignant if they have died a violent of premature death or have been denied funerary rites...
2. Henk W. Wagenaar; S. S. Parikh; D. F. Plukker; R. Veldhuijzen van Zanten (1993), Allied Chambers transliterated Hindi-Hindi-English dictionary, Allied Publishers, 1993... bhūt भूत (m.) a ghost; an evil spirit... the past tense (also bhūtkāl भूतकाल); (adj.) past, bygone...
3. Leon Stassen (2003), Intransitive Predication: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory, Oxford University Press, 2004... one of the most wide-spread roots in Indo-European...
4. William H. Snyder (2001), Time, Being, and Soul in the Oldest Sanskrit Sources, Global Academic Publishing, 2001... derived in Sanskrit from the two verb roots (Indo-European *es- and *bheu-)... bhūtam n. "being, creature"...
5. Seminar, Issues 525-529, R. Thapar, 2003, 2003... Filmi bhoot savaar tha na [I was obsessed with films]...
6. Nonica Datta (1999), Forming an identity: a social history of the Jats, Oxford University Press, 1999... Is bholepan ke bhoot ko syr se utar de... Get rid of your naivete...
7. Lt Gen Yashwant Mande (2001), Terror in Kashmir & Other Stories, Prabhat Prakashan, 2009... The house had developed a shabby look. No visitors came. It had become a bhoot bangla...
8. R.E. Enthoven; Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson (1989), Folklore Notes - 2 Vols, Asian Educational Services, 1989... it is believed that ghosts or evil spirits have the form of a human being, but their feet are turned backwards... They can change their forms at any time...
9. Österreichische Leo-Gesellschaft, Görres-Gesellschaft, Anthropos Institute (1962), Anthropos, Volume 57, Zaunrith'sche Buch-, Kunst- und Steindruckerei, 1962, ... its feet are twisted and turned backwards. The bhut always floats one foot above the ground ...
10. William Crooke (1896), The popular religion and folk-lore of northern India, Volume 1, A. Constable & Co., 1896, p. 237... they are very fond of milk... Bhuts can never sit on the ground... three infallible tests by which you may recognize a Bhut. In the first place he casts no shadow... can stand anything in his neighbourhood but the scent of burning turmeric... always speaks with a nasal twang...
11. Office of the Registrar General (1967), Census of India, 1961, Volume 8, Part 6, Issue 9, Manager of Publications, Government of India, 1962... Bhoot: This malevolent male spirit appears in spotless white clothes. Its abode is trees and field-embankments. It appears and disappears in moments...
12. Amaresh Misra (1998), Lucknow, fire of grace: the story of its revolution, renaissance and the aftermath, Harper Collins Publishers India, 1998... bhoot bangla - haunted mansion…
13. Gurnam Singh Sidhu Brard (2007), East of Indus: my memories of old Punjab, Hemkunt Press, 2007, p. 269... desirable to keep water handy, since the bhoot avoided water. Another object useful for warding off the bhoot was anything made of iron. It need not be a sword or knife; even a steel bracelet was supposed to be protective...
14. Ellen Winner (2003-11-01), World Shaman: Encountering Ancient Himalayan Spirits in Our Time, iUniverse, 2003... I saw a huge shadow was moving there and here. Slowly that shadow changed in human's shape and walking towards me. I thought some kind bhut was trying to attack me. I hurriedly speak the mantra, picked up a little dust from the ground...
15. Devdutt Pattanaik (2006), Myth=Mithya, Penguin Books India, 2006, p. 77,78... ghosts are not godless-creatures. They are not exorcised...
16. "Museums of India - National Handicrafts and Handilooms Museum, New Delhi" by Jyontindra Jain and Aarti Aggarwala.