The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 5
... folk - tales , such as " Rumpelstilzchen , " " Tom Titty Tot , " and " Whuppity Stoorie . " Here the imp or gnome has a secret name of his own , which he thinks it impossible for any one to find out , and he himself uses it only when he ...
... folk - tales , such as " Rumpelstilzchen , " " Tom Titty Tot , " and " Whuppity Stoorie . " Here the imp or gnome has a secret name of his own , which he thinks it impossible for any one to find out , and he himself uses it only when he ...
Side 13
... folk - lore . We have Excalibur and Balmung ; in the tales of Somadeva it confers the power of making the wearer fly through the air and renders him invincible ; the snake demon obtains from the wars of the Gods and the Asuras the magic ...
... folk - lore . We have Excalibur and Balmung ; in the tales of Somadeva it confers the power of making the wearer fly through the air and renders him invincible ; the snake demon obtains from the wars of the Gods and the Asuras the magic ...
Side 16
... Folk - tales , " 108 sqq .; Wilson , " Indian Caste , " ii . 174 . 3 Brand , " Observations , " 344 , 733 . " Campbell , " Notes , " 69 . receives his daily meal , in order to wake him 16 FOLK - LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA .
... Folk - tales , " 108 sqq .; Wilson , " Indian Caste , " ii . 174 . 3 Brand , " Observations , " 344 , 733 . " Campbell , " Notes , " 69 . receives his daily meal , in order to wake him 16 FOLK - LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA .
Side 18
... 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 large as a cart - wheel . The Râja , hearing of this , tried to take ...
... 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 large as a cart - wheel . The Râja , hearing of this , tried to take ...
Side 22
... folk - tales we find that spittle has the power of speech . The habit of spitting on the handsell or first money taken in the morning is common . It is done " either to render it tenacious that it may remain with them and not vanish ...
... folk - tales we find that spittle has the power of speech . The habit of spitting on the handsell or first money taken in the morning is common . It is done " either to render it tenacious that it may remain with them and not vanish ...
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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.