The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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... W. CROOKE , B.A. BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL . II . A NEW EDItion , revised and illUSTRATED WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO . 2 , WHITEHALL GARDENS , S. W. ぐ 187 2 CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE EVIL EYE 1896.
... W. CROOKE , B.A. BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL . II . A NEW EDItion , revised and illUSTRATED WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO . 2 , WHITEHALL GARDENS , S. W. ぐ 187 2 CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. THE EVIL EYE 1896.
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... Bengal mourners touch it as a form of purification . According to the old belief in England , coral guarded off lightning , whirlwind , tempests and storms from ships and houses , and was hung round the necks of children to assist ...
... Bengal mourners touch it as a form of purification . According to the old belief in England , coral guarded off lightning , whirlwind , tempests and storms from ships and houses , and was hung round the necks of children to assist ...
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... Bengal women has the same protective influence . ' PRECIOUS STONES PROTECTIVES . Precious stones possess similar value . Sir Thomas Brown would not deny that bezoar was antidotal , but he could not bring himself to believe that ...
... Bengal women has the same protective influence . ' PRECIOUS STONES PROTECTIVES . Precious stones possess similar value . Sir Thomas Brown would not deny that bezoar was antidotal , but he could not bring himself to believe that ...
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... Bengal , red mustard seeds and salt are mixed together , waved round the head of the patient , and then thrown into the fire . This reminds us of the flight of the Evil One into the remote parts of Egypt from the smell of the fish liver ...
... Bengal , red mustard seeds and salt are mixed together , waved round the head of the patient , and then thrown into the fire . This reminds us of the flight of the Evil One into the remote parts of Egypt from the smell of the fish liver ...
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... Bengal high - caste people will not drink from the hands of a girl who does not wear the Ullikhî or star - shaped tattoo mark between her eyebrows . A Chamâr woman who is not tattooed at marriage will not , it is believed , see her ...
... Bengal high - caste people will not drink from the hands of a girl who does not wear the Ullikhî or star - shaped tattoo mark between her eyebrows . A Chamâr woman who is not tattooed at marriage will not , it is believed , see her ...
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Side 19 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Side 325 - when the granaries are full of grain, and the people, to use their own expression, full of devilry. They have a strange notion that at this period, men and women are so over-charged with vicious propensities, that it is absolutely necessary for the safety of the person to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions.
Side 146 - A totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and altogether special relation.
Side 284 - They have an astonishing acquaintance with the devilries of enchantment; insomuch that they make their idols to speak. They can also by their sorceries bring on changes of weather and produce darkness, and do a number of things so extraordinary that no one without seeing them would believe them. Indeed, this country is the very original source from which Idolatry has spread abroad.