. Popular religion and folk-lore of Northern India . ount of the ravages of war, famine, orpestilence, and are guarded by the spirits of the originalowners, these calamities being self-evident proofs of themalignity and displeasure of the local deities. Mine and Cave Spirits. We have already mentioned incidentally the mine is not difficult to see why the spirits of mine and caveshould be malignant and resent trespass on their territories,because by the nature of the case they are directly in com-munication with the under-world. In the folk-tales ofSomadeva we have more than one refe
. Popular religion and folk-lore of Northern India . ount of the ravages of war, famine, orpestilence, and are guarded by the spirits of the originalowners, these calamities being self-evident proofs of themalignity and displeasure of the local deities. Mine and Cave Spirits. We have already mentioned incidentally the mine is not difficult to see why the spirits of mine and caveshould be malignant and resent trespass on their territories,because by the nature of the case they are directly in com-munication with the under-world. In the folk-tales ofSomadeva we have more than one reference to a cave whichleads to Patala, the rifted rock whose entrance leads tohell. Others are the entrance to fairy palaces, wheredwell the Asura maidens beneath the Of a mineat Patna, Dr. Buchanan writes: A stone-cutter who wasin my service was going into one of the shafts to break aspecimen, when the guide, a Muhammadan trader, acquainted 1 Folk-lore, iii. 83. : Campbell, Notes, 150 sq. 3 Tawney, Katha Sarit Sagara, i. 446, 558 ; ii.
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