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The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A fraternity of professed worshippers of the goddess Kali, the wife of Siva, who, professedly to propitiate her, practised murder, and lived on the spoils of the victims.

name for the practice, originally by strangling and at times by poisoning.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Thugs'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​t/thugs.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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