Then she gives the stone to the bridegroom, who also throws it aside.

This ceremony is meant to induce fertility, and it is supposed that by making believe that the bride has had a baby she will quickly have one.

Similar rites are performed in several other castes, and when a girl becomes adult her lap is filled with fruits with the idea that this will cause it subsequently to be filled with the fruit of her womb.

The whole custom of giving dolls to girls to play with, perhaps originated in the belief that by doing so they would afterwards come to play with children.
The dances of the Kol tribe consist partly of symbolical enactments of events which they desired to be successfully accomplished.

Some variations of the dance, Colonel Dalton states, represent the different seasons and the necessary acts of cultivation that each brings with it.