The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 18
... death cannot harm him . ' It is of jewels that the lamps which light fairy - land are made . Many of the precious stones have tales and qualities of their own . Once upon a time a holy man came and settled at Panna who had a diamond as ...
... death cannot harm him . ' It is of jewels that the lamps which light fairy - land are made . Many of the precious stones have tales and qualities of their own . Once upon a time a holy man came and settled at Panna who had a diamond as ...
Side 28
... death or birth impurity the house is carefully plastered with a mixture of cowdung and clay . No cooking place is pure without it , and the corpse is cremated with cakes of cow- dung fuel . Even the urine of the cow is valued as a ...
... death or birth impurity the house is carefully plastered with a mixture of cowdung and clay . No cooking place is pure without it , and the corpse is cremated with cakes of cow- dung fuel . Even the urine of the cow is valued as a ...
Side 37
... deaths which they believe to have occurred through fascination . The burning of the body is postponed till it is made to point out the delinquent . The relations solemnly call upon the corpse to do this , and the theory is that if there ...
... deaths which they believe to have occurred through fascination . The burning of the body is postponed till it is made to point out the delinquent . The relations solemnly call upon the corpse to do this , and the theory is that if there ...
Side 42
... death , as a transgressor against right and justice . " In Northern India this circle is known as a Gururu or Gaurua , and a person who takes an oath stands within it , or takes from inside an article which he claims . In one form of ...
... death , as a transgressor against right and justice . " In Northern India this circle is known as a Gururu or Gaurua , and a person who takes an oath stands within it , or takes from inside an article which he claims . In one form of ...
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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.