The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 2
... child is born , an invisible spirit is born with it ; and unless the mother keeps one breast tied up for forty days , while she feeds the child with the other ( in which case the spirit dies of hunger ) , the child grows up with the ...
... child is born , an invisible spirit is born with it ; and unless the mother keeps one breast tied up for forty days , while she feeds the child with the other ( in which case the spirit dies of hunger ) , the child grows up with the ...
Side 3
... children as a protection against fascination , because black is a colour hateful to evil spirits ; it has the additional advantage of protecting the eye from the fierce heat of the Indian summer . Women when delivery approaches often ...
... children as a protection against fascination , because black is a colour hateful to evil spirits ; it has the additional advantage of protecting the eye from the fierce heat of the Indian summer . Women when delivery approaches often ...
Side 4
... child by any disease which , as is usually the case , can be attributed to fascination or other demoniacal influence , it is a common practice to call the next baby by some opprobrious name , with the intention of so depreciating it ...
... child by any disease which , as is usually the case , can be attributed to fascination or other demoniacal influence , it is a common practice to call the next baby by some opprobrious name , with the intention of so depreciating it ...
Side 5
... child to say , " God bless it ! " and when passing a farmyard where the cows are collected for milking to say , " The blessing of God be on you and all your labour ! " 1 The same customs prevail in India . Thus , if a native gentleman ...
... child to say , " God bless it ! " and when passing a farmyard where the cows are collected for milking to say , " The blessing of God be on you and all your labour ! " 1 The same customs prevail in India . Thus , if a native gentleman ...
Side 6
... child and so on . To this , however , there is one notable exception . Thus , writing of Bombay , Mr. Campbell says : " At marriages , coming of age , first pregnancy and festive days , such as the Nâgpanchami and Mangalâ Gaurî in ...
... child and so on . To this , however , there is one notable exception . Thus , writing of Bombay , Mr. Campbell says : " At marriages , coming of age , first pregnancy and festive days , such as the Nâgpanchami and Mangalâ Gaurî in ...
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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.