Among the Kuramwar shepherds the bride and bridegroom are seated with the shuttle which is used for weaving blankets between them.

A miniature swing is put up and a doll is placed in it in imitation of a child and swung to and fro.

The bride then takes the doll out and gives it to the bridegroom, saying:--"Here, take care of it, I am now going to cook food"; while, after a time, the boy returns the doll to the girl saying, "I must now weave the blanket and go to tend the flock." Thus, having performed their life's business at their wedding, it is thought that they will continue to do so happily as long as they live.

Many castes, before sowing the real crop, make a pretence of sowing seed before the shrine of the god, and hope thus to ensure that the subsequent sowing will be auspicious.

The common stories of the appearance of a ghost, or other variety of apparition, before the deaths of members of a particular family, are based partly on the belief in the recurrence of associated events.