The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 12
... blood . The real reason is probably a very interesting sur- vival of folk - thought . We know that in many places the stone axe and arrow head of the Age of Stone are invested with magic qualities , and Mr. Macritchie has gone so far as ...
... blood . The real reason is probably a very interesting sur- vival of folk - thought . We know that in many places the stone axe and arrow head of the Age of Stone are invested with magic qualities , and Mr. Macritchie has gone so far as ...
Side 19
... BLOOD A PROtective . Blood is naturally closely connected with life . " The flesh with the life thereof , which is the blood thereof , shall ye not eat . " Hence blood comes to be a scarer of demons . In Scott's Lay the wizard's book ...
... BLOOD A PROtective . Blood is naturally closely connected with life . " The flesh with the life thereof , which is the blood thereof , shall ye not eat . " Hence blood comes to be a scarer of demons . In Scott's Lay the wizard's book ...
Side 20
... blood sacrifices so prevalent all over the world are performed with the same object . A curious Evil Eye charm is ... blood for the same purpose . We have else- where noticed the special character attached to menstrual or parturition ...
... blood sacrifices so prevalent all over the world are performed with the same object . A curious Evil Eye charm is ... blood for the same purpose . We have else- where noticed the special character attached to menstrual or parturition ...
Side 21
William Crooke. dealing with the blood covenant and human sacrifice . On the same analogy many Indian tribes mark the forehead of the bride with blood or vermilion , and red paint is smeared on the image of the village godling in lieu of ...
William Crooke. dealing with the blood covenant and human sacrifice . On the same analogy many Indian tribes mark the forehead of the bride with blood or vermilion , and red paint is smeared on the image of the village godling in lieu of ...
Side 29
... Blood Covenant . The same idea is probably the explanation of the flinging of red powder and water coloured with turmeric at the Holî or spring festival . Black , again , is feared by evil spirits , and the husbandman hangs a black pot ...
... Blood Covenant . The same idea is probably the explanation of the flinging of red powder and water coloured with turmeric at the Holî or spring festival . Black , again , is feared by evil spirits , and the husbandman hangs a black pot ...
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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.