The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 8
... perform a rude and occasionally obscene dance . Among the Modh Brâhmans of Gujarât , at marriages , the bridegroom's maternal uncle , whose special position is almost certainly a survival from times when descent through the mother was ...
... perform a rude and occasionally obscene dance . Among the Modh Brâhmans of Gujarât , at marriages , the bridegroom's maternal uncle , whose special position is almost certainly a survival from times when descent through the mother was ...
Side 20
... performed with the same object . A curious Evil Eye charm is recorded from Allahâbâd . A woman of the Chamâr or carrier caste gave birth to a dead child . Think- ing that this was due to fascination , she put a piece of the cloth used ...
... performed with the same object . A curious Evil Eye charm is recorded from Allahâbâd . A woman of the Chamâr or carrier caste gave birth to a dead child . Think- ing that this was due to fascination , she put a piece of the cloth used ...
Side 24
... performed at Hindu marriages in Upper India , when lights , a brass tray , grain , and household implements like the rice pounder or grindstone are waved round the head of the married pair as a protective . In Somadeva's tale of ...
... performed at Hindu marriages in Upper India , when lights , a brass tray , grain , and household implements like the rice pounder or grindstone are waved round the head of the married pair as a protective . In Somadeva's tale of ...
Side 25
... performed for the protection of the young mother and her child two or three days after her confinement . Both of them are bathed in a decoction of the leaves of the Nîm tree . Then a handful of the seeds of mustard and dill are waved ...
... performed for the protection of the young mother and her child two or three days after her confinement . Both of them are bathed in a decoction of the leaves of the Nîm tree . Then a handful of the seeds of mustard and dill are waved ...
Side 26
... performed by the brother of the bride . Rice stained yellow with turmeric is very often used for this purpose . Another device is to make a pile of rice , with a 1 Brand , " Observations , " 355 . " Bombay Gazetteer , ” xii . 117 . 2 ...
... performed by the brother of the bride . Rice stained yellow with turmeric is very often used for this purpose . Another device is to make a pile of rice , with a 1 Brand , " Observations , " 355 . " Bombay Gazetteer , ” xii . 117 . 2 ...
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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.