The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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... influence of the Evil Eye . May I use spells for them or not ? " The Prophet said , " Yes ; for if there were anything in the world which would overcome fate , it would be the Evil Eye . " - Miskât , xxi.-i. Part II . The belief in the ...
... influence of the Evil Eye . May I use spells for them or not ? " The Prophet said , " Yes ; for if there were anything in the world which would overcome fate , it would be the Evil Eye . " - Miskât , xxi.-i. Part II . The belief in the ...
Side 3
... influence . Hence comes the device of making an intentional blot in anything one values , so that the glance of the Evil Eye may be deprived of its complete satisfaction . Thus , most people put lampblack on the eyes of their children ...
... influence . Hence comes the device of making an intentional blot in anything one values , so that the glance of the Evil Eye may be deprived of its complete satisfaction . Thus , most people put lampblack on the eyes of their children ...
Side 4
... influence , it is a common practice to call the next baby by some opprobrious name , with the intention of so depreciating it that it may be regarded as worthless , and so protected from the Evil Eye of the envious . Thus a male child ...
... influence , it is a common practice to call the next baby by some opprobrious name , with the intention of so depreciating it that it may be regarded as worthless , and so protected from the Evil Eye of the envious . Thus a male child ...
Side 5
William Crooke. when the Manx mind was dominated by the fear of awaking malignant influences in the spirit world around him . " So , in Ireland , to avoid being suspected of having the Evil Eye , it is necessary when looking at a child ...
William Crooke. when the Manx mind was dominated by the fear of awaking malignant influences in the spirit world around him . " So , in Ireland , to avoid being suspected of having the Evil Eye , it is necessary when looking at a child ...
Side 6
... influence of evil spirits . Another mode of protecting boys from demoniacal influence is based on the same idea of the blot of imperfec- tion . Boys of rich parents are often dressed in mean or filthy clothes so that they may be ...
... influence of evil spirits . Another mode of protecting boys from demoniacal influence is based on the same idea of the blot of imperfec- tion . Boys of rich parents are often dressed in mean or filthy clothes so that they may be ...
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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.