The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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... prevails widely . ' According to Pliny , ' it was one of the special superstitions of the people of India , and at the present day it forms an important part of the popular belief . But the investigation of its principles is far from ...
... prevails widely . ' According to Pliny , ' it was one of the special superstitions of the people of India , and at the present day it forms an important part of the popular belief . But the investigation of its principles is far from ...
Side 5
... prevail in India . Thus , if a native gentleman brings his child to visit a European , he dislikes to hear it praised , unless the praise be accompanied with some pious ejaculation . And it is safer to speak in a com- plimentary way of ...
... prevail in India . Thus , if a native gentleman brings his child to visit a European , he dislikes to hear it praised , unless the praise be accompanied with some pious ejaculation . And it is safer to speak in a com- plimentary way of ...
Side 20
... prevail among many other peoples . We shall meet with instances of the same rite when 1 Hunt , " Popular Romances , " 213 . 2 " Panjab Notes and Queries , ” iii . 67 . 3 Campbell , " Notes , " 49 sq . 4 Dalton , " Descriptive Ethnology ...
... prevail among many other peoples . We shall meet with instances of the same rite when 1 Hunt , " Popular Romances , " 213 . 2 " Panjab Notes and Queries , ” iii . 67 . 3 Campbell , " Notes , " 49 sq . 4 Dalton , " Descriptive Ethnology ...
Side 25
... prevails , and in Ireland no one will take anything by stealth from such a place . ' In St. Patrick's Hymn we have a prayer against " the spells of women , of smiths , and of druids . " Culann , the mystic smith , appears in Celtic folk ...
... prevails , and in Ireland no one will take anything by stealth from such a place . ' In St. Patrick's Hymn we have a prayer against " the spells of women , of smiths , and of druids . " Culann , the mystic smith , appears in Celtic folk ...
Side 29
... prevails among the Thârus , one of the most primitive tribes of the sub - Himâlayan forests . The same principle probably explains the use of yellow clothes by certain classes of ascetics , and of Chandan or sandal - wood in making ...
... prevails among the Thârus , one of the most primitive tribes of the sub - Himâlayan forests . The same principle probably explains the use of yellow clothes by certain classes of ascetics , and of Chandan or sandal - wood in making ...
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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.