The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 10
... leaf , partly to divert fascination and partly to act as a scarer of demons . In fact the two conceptions meet and overlap all through the theory of these protectives . Another plan is to paint up some hideous figure on the posts or ...
... leaf , partly to divert fascination and partly to act as a scarer of demons . In fact the two conceptions meet and overlap all through the theory of these protectives . Another plan is to paint up some hideous figure on the posts or ...
Side 11
... leaf as a safe- guard . When food is taken to the labourer in the field , a piece of charcoal or copper coin is placed in the basket as a preservative ; and when horses while feeding throw a little grain on the ground , it is not ...
... leaf as a safe- guard . When food is taken to the labourer in the field , a piece of charcoal or copper coin is placed in the basket as a preservative ; and when horses while feeding throw a little grain on the ground , it is not ...
Side 15
... leaf , flower , or animal . This is one main cause of the recklessness with which rich natives load their children with masses of costly jewellery , though they are well aware that the practice often leads to robbery and murder . COPPER ...
... leaf , flower , or animal . This is one main cause of the recklessness with which rich natives load their children with masses of costly jewellery , though they are well aware that the practice often leads to robbery and murder . COPPER ...
Side 20
... leaves of betel , some cloves , and a piece of the castor - oil plant . Here we have , first , a case of well- worship ; secondly , the use of betel , cloves , and the castor- oil plant , all scarers of evil spirits ; and thirdly , an ...
... leaves of betel , some cloves , and a piece of the castor - oil plant . Here we have , first , a case of well- worship ; secondly , the use of betel , cloves , and the castor- oil plant , all scarers of evil spirits ; and thirdly , an ...
Side 25
... leaves of the Nîm tree . Then a handful of the seeds of mustard and dill are waved round the mother's head and thrown into a vessel containing fire . When the seeds are consumed the cup is upset , and the mother breaks it with her own ...
... leaves of the Nîm tree . Then a handful of the seeds of mustard and dill are waved round the mother's head and thrown into a vessel containing fire . When the seeds are consumed the cup is upset , and the mother breaks it with her own ...
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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.