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Suttee, Sanskrit sati ("good woman" or "chaste wife") , a Hindu custom of a wife immolating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband. Suttee was sometimes committed voluntarily, but cases of compulsion, escape, and rescue are known. Scattered instances of it continue to occur, most notoriously in the case of Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old widow who committed suttee in 1987.

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Moths fly high

this cold delight

of a summer's night........

their wings sing

but my mind's not right.........

see the showers spark high

in the flaming air..........

sizzling on the water

blowing in her hair.......

and the women heap wood

on the fragrant pyre

and the moths and the flames

shoot higher and higher.........

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