The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 2
... clothes or ornaments , and in many other like things . If in the case of any woman these desires are not gratified , the child whom she gives birth to becomes weak and voracious , and is said to have an Evil Eye . If 1 Ibbetson ...
... clothes or ornaments , and in many other like things . If in the case of any woman these desires are not gratified , the child whom she gives birth to becomes weak and voracious , and is said to have an Evil Eye . If 1 Ibbetson ...
Side 6
... clothes so that they may be considered unworthy of the malicious glance of some envious neighbour or enemy . Still another device , that of dressing up the boy during infancy as a girl , in other words a pretended change of sex , may ...
... clothes so that they may be considered unworthy of the malicious glance of some envious neighbour or enemy . Still another device , that of dressing up the boy during infancy as a girl , in other words a pretended change of sex , may ...
Side 8
... clothes from head to waist , and in men's clothes below , rubs his face with oil , daubs it with red powder , goes with the bride and bride- groom to a place where two roads meet ( which , as we have seen , is a haunt of spirits ) , and ...
... clothes from head to waist , and in men's clothes below , rubs his face with oil , daubs it with red powder , goes with the bride and bride- groom to a place where two roads meet ( which , as we have seen , is a haunt of spirits ) , and ...
Side 20
... cloth used at her confinement down a well , having previously enclosed in it two leaves of betel , some cloves , and a piece of the castor - oil plant . Here we have , first , a case of well- worship ; secondly , the use of betel ...
... cloth used at her confinement down a well , having previously enclosed in it two leaves of betel , some cloves , and a piece of the castor - oil plant . Here we have , first , a case of well- worship ; secondly , the use of betel ...
Side 21
... cloth worn by the person supposed to have overlooked the infant and burn it near him . If he sneezes , he expels the spirit and the spell is broken , or the cloth is burned to ashes and given to the patient , while his forehead is ...
... cloth worn by the person supposed to have overlooked the infant and burn it near him . If he sneezes , he expels the spirit and the spell is broken , or the cloth is burned to ashes and given to the patient , while his forehead is ...
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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.