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Overview

A farmer uncovers two money-filled brass pots joined by a copper chain and thereafter prospers. Years later his family suffers recurring illness and deaths. A consulted jan guru attributes these misfortunes to the money’s owner, a Kisar bonga named Mainomati, and prescribes returning the wealth through a departure rite.

A heifer carries the money to a peepul tree where the family performs the prescribed acts and leaves. That evening a passerby sees a young woman fastened to the tree, releases her and marries her without knowing she is a bonga. The tale connects the named spirit with that female appearance; its explanation of illness is attributed narrative belief, not a medical diagnosis or independently verified event.

Named Kisar bonga associated with buried wealthSpecific Santal narrative witness
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Origins & earliest records

Santal Parganas, eastern India; source-specific Santali storytelling

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Records & interpretation

Complete Part IV tales CXLVIII–CLIX and preface directly read; exact relevant sections identified.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Folklore of the Santal Parganas

    Cecil Henry Bompas, translator; O. Bodding, collector; Sagram Murmu, principal Santali writer credited in preface · 1909

    CLIX, The Bonga Exorcised, pp. 396–397

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

Cecil Henry Bompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas (1909)

Part IV, bonga narratives. CLIX, The Bonga Exorcised, pp. 396–397

Relevant tales completely read along with Part IV introduction and full preface. Bodding/Murmu/Bompas mediation explicitly retained; original Santali manuscripts not independently inspected. Narrative supernatural claims distinguished from independently verified history or medicine.

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References

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  1. Historical translation of collected narrativesBompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas (1909), CLIX, The Bonga Exorcised, pp. 396–397Research access: 2026-10-05

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