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Public People, thirteen (3), pp. 511-531. Reprinted in B Ingstad & SR Whyte (eds) (2007) Handicap inside the Local and you may Global Planets, 128-148. Berkeley: College out of California Drive. Sharing facial disfigurement (pp. 512-521), a situation records is provided with of an early on woman, Mandira, whoever relationship occurred truly, and you will are followed by rumours one her suitor is bewitched of the ‘dangerous enchanting rites’ in order that the guy did not see their particular disfigurement. 5 years later on this new spouse died, and lots of family unit members believed Mandira along with her moms and dads had been correctly penalized due to their trickery. Rather than the religious practitioner that have “cast a good veil along side partner’s ability to see and you may legal, because the so-called by others — maybe he previously brought up an excellent veil and you can invited Mandira’s husband so you’re able to pick their just like the she it is are, penetrating the exterior physical appearance, as it had been.” One of several authors comments, “This is the one occasion on which I discovered a complicated solution out of cosmological information regarding the beauty and you can ugliness that mediated the brand new manner in which the brand new social norms was basically articulated. Hindu mythology and you can iconography try replete with examples in which the capacity to behold beauty really, to conquer attitude out of repulsion and you may scary at the attention out-of what was ugly and you can terrifying, is the manifestation of the actual fans.”