The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 5
... hair , which are carefully looked after . Thus with all Hindus two names are given to children , one secret and used only for ceremonial purposes , and the other for ordinary use . The witch if she learns the real name can work her evil ...
... hair , which are carefully looked after . Thus with all Hindus two names are given to children , one secret and used only for ceremonial purposes , and the other for ordinary use . The witch if she learns the real name can work her evil ...
Side 29
... hair is stained with vermilion , though here the practice is probably based on the symbolical belief in the Blood Covenant . The same idea is probably the explanation of the flinging of red powder and water coloured with turmeric at the ...
... hair is stained with vermilion , though here the practice is probably based on the symbolical belief in the Blood Covenant . The same idea is probably the explanation of the flinging of red powder and water coloured with turmeric at the ...
Side 33
... hair of Siva , the weapons of Vishnu , and the cooking house of Sîtâ , the type of wifely virtue . Some of these marks were probably of totemistic origin , but they have now become merely orna- mentative , as was the case in Central ...
... hair of Siva , the weapons of Vishnu , and the cooking house of Sîtâ , the type of wifely virtue . Some of these marks were probably of totemistic origin , but they have now become merely orna- mentative , as was the case in Central ...
Side 36
... hair keeps off fever . ' Lastly , the demon may be trapped by physical means . " To be delivered from witches they hang in their entries whitethorn gathered on May Day . " So , many of the menial castes in the North - West Provinces ...
... hair keeps off fever . ' Lastly , the demon may be trapped by physical means . " To be delivered from witches they hang in their entries whitethorn gathered on May Day . " So , many of the menial castes in the North - West Provinces ...
Side 44
... hair appeared . So , in the tales of Somadeva , Sridatta places a ring on the finger of the unconscious princess and she immediately revives ; the disloyal wife here , as in the " Arabian Nights , " takes a ring from each of her lovers ...
... hair appeared . So , in the tales of Somadeva , Sridatta places a ring on the finger of the unconscious princess and she immediately revives ; the disloyal wife here , as in the " Arabian Nights , " takes a ring from each of her lovers ...
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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.