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'Thugs fixing the attention of a traveller ...', 1838. Creator: Frances Eden.

'Thugs fixing the attention of a traveller ...', 1838. Creator: Frances Eden.

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'Thugs fixing the attention of a traveller upon something mysterious in the clouds, that he may be strangled unawares', 1838. The cult of Thuggee in India was practiced by devotees of the goddess Kali. They never strangled women. The practice was finally wiped out in the 1830s. From 'Dialogues with Thugs and Narratives of Murderers'.

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  1. Frances Eden, attributed to: (British?): Artist
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  1. Shelfmark ID: MSS EUR C 130. Folio No: 3 74
  1. 1280000152
  1. 3-056-640
  1. 3056640
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