Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 56

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 56: Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 1917On a certain day a Yogin turned up, the king received him under four eyes, and learned from him the art of entering into a dead body. The king kept rehearsing to himself the charm in the presence of the hunchback who, in this way, learned it also. It happened that the king and the hunchback went out to hunt, the king discovered in a thicket a Brahman who had died of thirst. Eager to test his power, he muttered the charm he had learned and transported his soul into the body of the Brahman. The hunch back immediately entered the body of the king, mounted his horse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.