Thuggee consider themselves to be children of Kali, created out of her sweat.
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Thuggee is described as a cult of people engaged in mass murder.
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Thuggee was a cult of assassins who roamed India for centuries before they were suppressed by the British in the 1830s.
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He agrees, stumbling upon a Kali-worshipping thuggee cult practicing child slavery, black magic, and ritual human sacrifice.
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The ancient Hindu practitioners of thuggee strangled their victims amid much ritual and in so doing attained a state of religious ecstasy.
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However, it is true that the thuggee cult, who were actually robbers and nothing more, used to worship Kali and offer human sacrifices so that their venture may succeed.
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Murder and robbery by thugs
Thuggee or tuggee (Hindi: Nepali u0920u0917u094Du0917u0940 u1E6Dhaggu012B; Urdu: u0679u06BEu06AFu200E; Sanskrit: sthaga; Sindhi: u067Au0648u06B3u064Au060C u067Au06B3u200E; Kannada: u0CA0u0C95u0CCDu0C95 thakka) refers to the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers. Thugs travelled in groups across South Asia for six hundred years...
A thug (member of band of assassins in India); The murder and robbery of groups of travellers in India