The bucket catches water from the downspout.

The midwife shaves the headhair of the child, takes it in a Phumk (vessel of Sal leave) and immerse in the water of Bonga-Pokhri.

Yes, I admit that it was all my past run-ins with “crazy religious people” always trying to “save” me and shove religion down my throat that closed me off to Anthony's real sentiments.

[T]hese giants are ever heretics and blasphemers, robbers and oppressors, outragers of the female sex, and scoffers at regular authority.