The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 2
... person so endowed looks at anything constantly , something will happen to it . " So , in Ireland we are told that " the gift comes by Nature and is born with one , though it may not be called into exercise unless circumstances arise to ...
... person so endowed looks at anything constantly , something will happen to it . " So , in Ireland we are told that " the gift comes by Nature and is born with one , though it may not be called into exercise unless circumstances arise to ...
Side 3
... persons eating . " 1 2 The real fact seems to be that in most cases the Evil Eye is the result of covetousness . Thus , a man blind of an eye , no matter how well - disposed he may be , is almost certain to envy a person blessed with a ...
... persons eating . " 1 2 The real fact seems to be that in most cases the Evil Eye is the result of covetousness . Thus , a man blind of an eye , no matter how well - disposed he may be , is almost certain to envy a person blessed with a ...
Side 4
... person whose eyelids are encircled with lampblack is incapable of casting the Evil Eye himself ; and it is considered nice in a woman to ornament herself in this way , since because she herself , except at some crisis of her life , such ...
... person whose eyelids are encircled with lampblack is incapable of casting the Evil Eye himself ; and it is considered nice in a woman to ornament herself in this way , since because she herself , except at some crisis of her life , such ...
Side 5
... person in the belief of savages , and a man can be injured through his name as well as through the parings of his nails or hair , which are carefully looked after . Thus with all Hindus two names are given to children , one secret and ...
... person in the belief of savages , and a man can be injured through his name as well as through the parings of his nails or hair , which are carefully looked after . Thus with all Hindus two names are given to children , one secret and ...
Side 6
... persons of dignity from the influence of evil spirits . Another mode of protecting boys from demoniacal influence is based on the same idea of the blot of imperfec- tion . Boys of rich parents are often dressed in mean or filthy clothes ...
... persons of dignity from the influence of evil spirits . Another mode of protecting boys from demoniacal influence is based on the same idea of the blot of imperfec- tion . Boys of rich parents are often dressed in mean or filthy clothes ...
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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.