The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 14
... fetish , or insures that all will go well with it , if we say when taking it up , ' I do not pick it up , ' - naming the object - ' I pick up good luck , which may never abandon me ! ' This , combined with the general protective power ...
... fetish , or insures that all will go well with it , if we say when taking it up , ' I do not pick it up , ' - naming the object - ' I pick up good luck , which may never abandon me ! ' This , combined with the general protective power ...
Side 27
... fetish , and by the number of grains which remain in the interstices calculates which particular ghost is worrying the patient . On the same principle the Orâons put rice in the mouth of the corpse , and the Koiris , when they marry ...
... fetish , and by the number of grains which remain in the interstices calculates which particular ghost is worrying the patient . On the same principle the Orâons put rice in the mouth of the corpse , and the Koiris , when they marry ...
Side 65
... fetish mound during the night after death , and then the mourning goes on . The practice is perhaps intended as much to prevent , by the sanctity of the spot on which it is placed , the spirit from harming the survivors , as from any ...
... fetish mound during the night after death , and then the mourning goes on . The practice is perhaps intended as much to prevent , by the sanctity of the spot on which it is placed , the spirit from harming the survivors , as from any ...
Side 82
... fetish is a stick covered with peacock's feathers to which offerings of food are made . He has more than a quarter of a million worshippers , according to the last census , in the Meerut Division . BUGABOOS . We close this long list of ...
... fetish is a stick covered with peacock's feathers to which offerings of food are made . He has more than a quarter of a million worshippers , according to the last census , in the Meerut Division . BUGABOOS . We close this long list of ...
Side 84
... fetish by some other spirit which has entered it or used it for a body , is often hard to deter- mine . The tree may be the spirits ' perch or shelter ( as we have seen in the case of the Churel or Râkshasa ) , or the sacred grove is ...
... fetish by some other spirit which has entered it or used it for a body , is often hard to deter- mine . The tree may be the spirits ' perch or shelter ( as we have seen in the case of the Churel or Râkshasa ) , or the sacred grove 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.