514 A. Bastian, in _Verhandl. d. Berlin. Gesellsch. f. Anthropol._ 1881, p. 151; cp. _id._, _Völkerstämme am Brahmaputra_, p. 6 _sq._ Amongst the Chukmas of South-east India the body of a priest is conveyed to the place of cremation on a car; ropes are attached to the car, the people divide themselves into two equal bodies and pull at the ropes in opposite directions. “One side represents the good spirits; the other, the powers of evil. The contest is so arranged that the former are victorious. Sometimes, however, the young men representing the demons are inclined to pull too vigorously, but a stick generally quells this unseemly ardour in the cause of evil.” Lewin, _Wild Tribes of South-Eastern India_, p. 185. The contest is like that between the angels and devils depicted in the frescoes of the Campo Santo at Pisa. In Burma a similar contest takes place at the funeral of a holy man; but there the original meaning of the ceremony appears to be forgotten. See Sangermano, _Description of the Burmese Empire_ (ed. 1885), p. 98; Forbes, _British Burma_, p. 216 _sq._; Shway Yoe, _The Burman_, ii. 334 _sq._, 342. Sometimes ceremonies of this sort are instituted for a different purpose. In some East Indian islands when the people want a rainy wind from the west, the population of the village, men, women, and children, divide into two parties and pull against each other at the ends of a long bamboo. But the party at the eastern end must pull the harder, in order to draw the desired wind out of the west. Riedel, _De sluik-en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua_, p. 282. The Cingalese perform a ceremony like “French and English” in honour of the goddess Patiné. Forbes, _Eleven Years in Ceylon_ (London, 1840), i. 358. _ 515 Folk-lore Journal_, vii. 174. 516 François Valentyn, _Oud-en nieuw Ost-Indiën_, iii. 14. Backer, _L’Archipel Indien_, p. 377 _sq._, copies from Valentyn. 517 Riedel, _De sluik-en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua_, p. 304 _sq._ _ 518 Ib._ p. 25 _sq._ _ 519 Ib._ p. 141. 520 Riedel, _op. cit._ p. 78. _ 521 Ib._ p. 357.