The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 11
... horses while feeding throw a little 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 ...
... horses while feeding throw a little 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 ...
Side 14
... horse - shoe is one special form of the charm . The wild Irish , we are told , used to hang round the necks of children the beginning of St. John's Gospel , a crooked nail out of a horse - shoe , or a piece of wolf - skin . ' Why the horse ...
... horse - shoe is one special form of the charm . The wild Irish , we are told , used to hang round the necks of children the beginning of St. John's Gospel , a crooked nail out of a horse - shoe , or a piece of wolf - skin . ' Why the horse ...
Side 17
... horse , or on a cow or buffalo . The shell armlet worn by Bengal women has the same protective influence . ' PRECIOUS STONES PROTECTIVES . Precious stones possess similar value . Sir Thomas Brown would not deny that bezoar was antidotal ...
... horse , or on a cow or buffalo . The shell armlet worn by Bengal women has the same protective influence . ' PRECIOUS STONES PROTECTIVES . Precious stones possess similar value . Sir Thomas Brown would not deny that bezoar was antidotal ...
Side 19
... horses and other valuable animals . The belief in the efficacy of beads is at the basis of the use of rosaries , which , as used in Europe , are almost certainly of Eastern origin , imported in the Middle Ages in imitation of those worn ...
... horses and other valuable animals . The belief in the efficacy of beads is at the basis of the use of rosaries , which , as used in Europe , are almost certainly of Eastern origin , imported in the Middle Ages in imitation of those worn ...
Side 33
... horse , the serpent , the scorpion , tortoise , centipede , appear constantly in various forms . Others , again , are representations of jewellery actually worn - necklaces , bracelets , armlets , or rings . Others , again , are purely ...
... horse , the serpent , the scorpion , tortoise , centipede , appear constantly in various forms . Others , again , are representations of jewellery actually worn - necklaces , bracelets , armlets , or rings . Others , again , are purely ...
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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.