The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 8
... magic . " This may possibly be one explanation of the practice among Chamârs and other low castes in Northern India , when at marriages boys dress up as women and perform a rude and occasionally obscene dance . Among the Modh Brâhmans ...
... magic . " This may possibly be one explanation of the practice among Chamârs and other low castes in Northern India , when at marriages boys dress up as women and perform a rude and occasionally obscene dance . Among the Modh Brâhmans ...
Side 12
... magic qualities , and Mr. Macritchie has gone so far as to assume that the various so - called fairy houses and fairy hills which abound in Europe are really the abodes of a primitive pigmy race , which survive to our days as the ...
... magic qualities , and Mr. Macritchie has gone so far as to assume that the various so - called fairy houses and fairy hills which abound in Europe are really the abodes of a primitive pigmy race , which survive to our days as the ...
Side 13
... magic sword constantly appears in folk - lore . We have Excalibur and Balmung ; in the tales of Somadeva it confers the power of making the wearer fly through the air and renders him invincible ; the snake demon obtains from the wars of ...
... magic sword constantly appears in folk - lore . We have Excalibur and Balmung ; in the tales of Somadeva it confers the power of making the wearer fly through the air and renders him invincible ; the snake demon obtains from the wars of ...
Side 27
... magic , when it is thrown over the head of the person whom the magician wishes to bring under his control . " BARLEY . Barley , another sacred grain , is rubbed over the corpse of a Hindu and sprinkled on the head before the cremation ...
... magic , when it is thrown over the head of the person whom the magician wishes to bring under his control . " BARLEY . Barley , another sacred grain , is rubbed over the corpse of a Hindu and sprinkled on the head before the cremation ...
Side 41
... magic square with the letters making up the word Hâfiz , " the protector . " Many village Musalmâns use little stone or glass tablets for the same purpose . Some have a hocus- pocus inscription purporting to be a verse of the Qurân in ...
... magic square with the letters making up the word Hâfiz , " the protector . " Many village Musalmâns use little stone or glass tablets for the same purpose . Some have a hocus- pocus inscription purporting to be a verse of the Qurân in ...
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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.