The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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... marks on houses , and symbols and devices of various kinds , which are certainly intended to counteract it ; but hardly any one cares directly to explain the real motive , and if you ask the meaning of them , you will almost invariably ...
... marks on houses , and symbols and devices of various kinds , which are certainly intended to counteract it ; but hardly any one cares directly to explain the real motive , and if you ask the meaning of them , you will almost invariably ...
Side 3
... mark themselves with black 1 Campbell , " Notes , " 207 . 2 On this see valuable , notes by W. Cockburn in " Panjâb Notes and Queries , " i . 14 . to avert the demon who causes protracted labour . It B 2 THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF ...
... mark themselves with black 1 Campbell , " Notes , " 207 . 2 On this see valuable , notes by W. Cockburn in " Panjâb Notes and Queries , " i . 14 . to avert the demon who causes protracted labour . It B 2 THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF ...
Side 11
... mark on its cheek , and before a man eats betel he pinches off the corner of the 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 ...
... mark on its cheek , and before a man eats betel he pinches off the corner of the 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 ...
Side 21
... mark the forehead of the bride with blood or vermilion , and red paint is smeared on the image of the village godling in lieu of a regular sacrifice . INCENSE . Similarly , incense is largely used in religious rites , partly to please ...
... mark the forehead of the bride with blood or vermilion , and red paint is smeared on the image of the village godling in lieu of a regular sacrifice . INCENSE . Similarly , incense is largely used in religious rites , partly to please ...
Side 29
... marks and for various cere- monial purposes . Yellow and red are the usual colours of marriage garments , and the parting of the bride's hair is stained with vermilion , though here the practice is probably based on the symbolical ...
... marks and for various cere- monial purposes . Yellow and red are the usual colours of marriage garments , and the parting of the bride's hair is stained with vermilion , though here the practice is probably based on the symbolical ...
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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.