The red powder thrown over everybody at the Holi is said to represent the seed of life.

The gifts of Easter eggs seem to be the vestige of a rite having the same object.

At a wedding in the Lodhi caste the bride is seated before the family god while an old woman brings a stone rolling-pin wrapped up in a piece of cloth, which is supposed to be a baby, and the old woman imitates a baby crying.

She puts the roller in the bride's lap, saying, "Take this and give it milk." The bride is abashed and throws it aside.

The old woman picks it up and shows it to the assembled women, saying, "The bride has just had a baby," amid loud laughter.