The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 3
... Evil Eye is warded off . " Mr. Campbell explains this on the principle that " as he comes from places where three or four roads meet , and which are spirit haunts , an evil spirit accompanies him without entering his body , from the ...
... Evil Eye is warded off . " Mr. Campbell explains this on the principle that " as he comes from places where three or four roads meet , and which are spirit haunts , an evil spirit accompanies him without entering his body , from the ...
Side 6
... spirits whose influence might blight the tender life of the unborn child . This seems natural when it is remembered ... evil spirits . Another mode of protecting boys from demoniacal influence is based on the same idea of the blot of ...
... spirits whose influence might blight the tender life of the unborn child . This seems natural when it is remembered ... evil spirits . Another mode of protecting boys from demoniacal influence is based on the same idea of the blot of ...
Side 8
... ghost is dangerous , in woman's clothes from head to waist , and in men's ... spirits ) , and stays there till the pair offer the goddess food . ' Now ... Evil Eye . With the same object it is very common in India to bore the noses ...
... ghost is dangerous , in woman's clothes from head to waist , and in men's ... spirits ) , and stays there till the pair offer the goddess food . ' Now ... Evil Eye . With the same object it is very common in India to bore the noses ...
Side 11
... spirits are abroad . In the same way , when a man purchases food in the open market , he throws a little into the fire , and when a man is having a specially good dinner , he should select an ... EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS . II.
... spirits are abroad . In the same way , when a man purchases food in the open market , he throws a little into the fire , and when a man is having a specially good dinner , he should select an ... EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS . II.
Side 12
... evil spirits . Mr. Campbell ' thinks the explanation may be that in all cases of swooning and seizures iron is of great value , either applied in the form of the cautery or used as a lancet to let blood . The real reason is probably a ...
... evil spirits . Mr. Campbell ' thinks the explanation may be that in all cases of swooning and seizures iron is of great value , either applied in the form of the cautery or used as a lancet to let blood . The real reason is probably a ...
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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.