Dordzhi Nandyshev, beliefs connected with the whirlwind
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Terbish, Baasanjav
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Dordzhi says that Kalmyks believe each whirlwind to have an old evil spirit (shulm) sitting in the middle of it. There is a custom to spit three times and through a sharp object into the whirlwind. After this, according to old men, the whirlwind ‘bleeds’.
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Whirlwind, beliefs
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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge
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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin