The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 5
... customs prevail in India . Thus , if a native gentleman brings his child to visit a European , he dislikes to hear it praised , unless the praise be accompanied with some pious ejaculation . And it is safer to speak in a com- plimentary ...
... customs prevail in India . Thus , if a native gentleman brings his child to visit a European , he dislikes to hear it praised , unless the praise be accompanied with some pious ejaculation . And it is safer to speak in a com- plimentary ...
Side 6
... custom is observed . " Mr. Campbell takes this to be " part of a ceremony whose object is to drive to a distance any spirits whose influence might blight the tender life of the unborn child . This seems natural when it is remembered ...
... custom is observed . " Mr. Campbell takes this to be " part of a ceremony whose object is to drive to a distance any spirits whose influence might blight the tender life of the unborn child . This seems natural when it is remembered ...
Side 7
... custom of pretended change of sex as shown in the case of the Amazons , has been thus explained by Mr. Abercromby : " The great desire of women , more especially during a period of warlike barbarism , is to bear male children . Turning ...
... custom of pretended change of sex as shown in the case of the Amazons , has been thus explained by Mr. Abercromby : " The great desire of women , more especially during a period of warlike barbarism , is to bear male children . Turning ...
Side 9
William Crooke. The theory of the blot of imperfection again appears in the custom of not washing the face of a little boy till he is six years old . ' Similarly , young men , if vigorous and stout , consider themselves very liable to ...
William Crooke. The theory of the blot of imperfection again appears in the custom of not washing the face of a little boy till he is six years old . ' Similarly , young men , if vigorous and stout , consider themselves very liable to ...
Side 11
... customs of grace - giving at meals . Thus , when the Brâhmans at Pûna begin dinner they repeat the name of Govinda ; the Shenavis say , Har ! Har ! Mahadeva , and when half finished sing verses ; the Mhârs never eat without saying ...
... customs of grace - giving at meals . Thus , when the Brâhmans at Pûna begin dinner they repeat the name of Govinda ; the Shenavis say , Har ! Har ! Mahadeva , and when half finished sing verses ; the Mhârs never eat without saying ...
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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.