The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 11
... offering of food at a meal is a sacrifice to Annadeva , the god of food ; but here many varied beliefs , such as fear of fascination , earth and fire worship , appear to combine to establish these and similar practices . 1 We now come ...
... offering of food at a meal is a sacrifice to Annadeva , the god of food ; but here many varied beliefs , such as fear of fascination , earth and fire worship , appear to combine to establish these and similar practices . 1 We now come ...
Side 16
... offerings to him are black , and consequently ill - omened , such as sesamum , charcoal , buffaloes , and black salt ; and only the Dakaut , the lowest class of Brâhman priest , will accept such offerings . ' CORAL AND MARINE PRODUCTS ...
... offerings to him are black , and consequently ill - omened , such as sesamum , charcoal , buffaloes , and black salt ; and only the Dakaut , the lowest class of Brâhman priest , will accept such offerings . ' CORAL AND MARINE PRODUCTS ...
Side 17
... offering . This shell , in popular belief , is the bone of the demon Panchajana , who , according to the Vishnu Purâna , ' " lived in the form of a conch shell under the ocean . Krishna plunged into the water , killed him , took the ...
... offering . This shell , in popular belief , is the bone of the demon Panchajana , who , according to the Vishnu Purâna , ' " lived in the form of a conch shell under the ocean . Krishna plunged into the water , killed him , took the ...
Side 21
... offerings . Bad smells repel evil spirits , and this is probably why assafoetida is given to a woman after her delivery . In Ireland , if a child be sick , they take a piece of the cloth worn by the person supposed to have overlooked ...
... offerings . Bad smells repel evil spirits , and this is probably why assafoetida is given to a woman after her delivery . In Ireland , if a child be sick , they take a piece of the cloth worn by the person supposed to have overlooked ...
Side 28
... offerings to the sainted dead , and made up in the form of a cow , called Tiladhenu , it is presented to Brâhmans . SHEAVES . Most grains in the ear have also mystic uses . It is hung up over the house door to repel evil spirits , and ...
... offerings to the sainted dead , and made up in the form of a cow , called Tiladhenu , it is presented to Brâhmans . SHEAVES . Most grains in the ear have also mystic uses . It is hung up over the house door to repel evil spirits , and ...
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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.