The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 2
... called into exercise unless circumstances arise to excite the power ; then it comes to act like a spirit of bitter and malicious envy that radiates a poisonous atmosphere , which chills and blights everything within its reach . " " 1 2 ...
... called into exercise unless circumstances arise to excite the power ; then it comes to act like a spirit of bitter and malicious envy that radiates a poisonous atmosphere , which chills and blights everything within its reach . " " 1 2 ...
Side 4
... called Kuriya or " Dunghill ; " Kadheran or Ghasîta , " He that has been dragged along the ground ; " Dukhi or Dukhita , " The afflicted one ; " Phatingua , " Grasshopper ; " Jhingura , " Cricket ; " Bhîkhra or Bhîkhu , " Beggar ...
... called Kuriya or " Dunghill ; " Kadheran or Ghasîta , " He that has been dragged along the ground ; " Dukhi or Dukhita , " The afflicted one ; " Phatingua , " Grasshopper ; " Jhingura , " Cricket ; " Bhîkhra or Bhîkhu , " Beggar ...
Side 8
... called sympathetic magic . " This may possibly be one explanation of the practice among Chamârs and other low castes in Northern India , when at marriages boys dress up as women and perform a rude and occasionally obscene dance . Among ...
... called sympathetic magic . " This may possibly be one explanation of the practice among Chamârs and other low castes in Northern India , when at marriages boys dress up as women and perform a rude and occasionally obscene dance . Among ...
Side 12
... called fairy houses and fairy hills which abound in Europe are really the abodes of a primitive pigmy race , which survive to our days as the fairies . The belief in the fairies would thus go back to a time . anterior to the use of ...
... called fairy houses and fairy hills which abound in Europe are really the abodes of a primitive pigmy race , which survive to our days as the fairies . The belief in the fairies would thus go back to a time . anterior to the use of ...
Side 24
... called in to attend a case attributed to demoniacal possession , he whisks the patient with a branch of the Nîm , Madâr , or Camel thorn , all of which are more or less sacred trees and have acquired a reputation as preservatives . When ...
... called in to attend a case attributed to demoniacal possession , he whisks the patient with a branch of the Nîm , Madâr , or Camel thorn , all of which are more or less sacred trees and have acquired a reputation as preservatives . When ...
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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.