Finally he is permitted to eat with the _panchayat_ in his own house in order to mark his admission into the caste.

A candidate for admission in the Mahli caste has to eat a little of the leavings of the food of each of the castemen at a feast.

The community of robbers known as Badhak or Baoria formerly dwelt in the Oudh forests.

They were accustomed to take omens from the cry of the jackal, and they may probably have venerated it as representing the spirit of the forest and as a fellow-hunter.

They were called jackal-eaters, and it was said that when an outsider was admitted to one of their bands he was given jackal's flesh to eat.
Again, the rite of initiation or investiture with the sacred thread appears to be the occasion of the admission of a boy to the caste community.