They are despised by the Ghasias, who will not take food or water from them.

At the marriages of the former the Mangans play on a drum called _ghunghru_, which they consider as the badge of the caste, their cattle being branded with a representation of it.

The only point worth notice about the caste is that they are admittedly of mixed descent from the unions of members of other castes with Ghasia prostitutes.

They have five totemistic exogamous sections, about each of which a song is sung relating its origin.

The Sunani sept, which worships gold as its totem and occupies the highest position, is said to be descended from a Brahman father and a Ghasia mother; the Sendaria sept, worshipping vermilion, from a Kewat ancestor and a Ghasia woman; the Bhainsa sept, worshipping a buffalo, from a Gaur or Ahir and a Ghasia; the Mahanadia sept, having the Mahanadi for their totem, from a Gond and a Ghasia woman; while the Bagh sept, who revere the tiger, say that a cow once gave birth to two young, one in the form of a tiger and the other of a human being; the latter on growing up took a Ghasia woman to himself and became the ancestor of the sept.