The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 11
... grain on the ground , it is not replaced , because the horse is believed to do this to avoid fascination . Grooms , with the same object , throw a dirty duster over the withers of a horse while it is feeding , and they are the more ...
... grain on the ground , it is not replaced , because the horse is believed to do this to avoid fascination . Grooms , with the same object , throw a dirty duster over the withers of a horse while it is feeding , and they are the more ...
Side 24
... grain , and household implements like the rice pounder or grindstone are waved round the head of the married pair as a protective . In Somadeva's tale of Bhunandana we find that he " performs the ceremony of averting evil spirits from ...
... grain , and household implements like the rice pounder or grindstone are waved round the head of the married pair as a protective . In Somadeva's tale of Bhunandana we find that he " performs the ceremony of averting evil spirits from ...
Side 25
... grain in her hand , while the household brass tray is beaten to scare demons and the midwife throws the child into the air . All this takes place in the open air in the courtyard of the house . Here we have a series of antidotes to ...
... grain in her hand , while the household brass tray is beaten to scare demons and the midwife throws the child into the air . All this takes place in the open air in the courtyard of the house . Here we have a series of antidotes to ...
Side 26
... GRAIN . With this use of grain we meet with another valuable antidote . We have it in Great Britain in the rule that " the English , when the bride comes from church , are wont to cast wheat upon her head . " 1 It survives in our custom ...
... GRAIN . With this use of grain we meet with another valuable antidote . We have it in Great Britain in the rule that " the English , when the bride comes from church , are wont to cast wheat upon her head . " 1 It survives in our custom ...
Side 27
... grain in a fan , which is , as we shall see , a potent 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 ...
... grain in a fan , which is , as we shall see , a potent 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 ...
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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.