The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 6
... stones , or of spices , all of which have a power to scare spirits ; and as repeating the thousand names of Mahâdeva is a service in which he greatly delights , apparently because it keeps spirits at a distance , so this repeating of ...
... stones , or of spices , all of which have a power to scare spirits ; and as repeating the thousand names of Mahâdeva is a service in which he greatly delights , apparently because it keeps spirits at a distance , so this repeating of ...
Side 12
... stone axe and arrow head of the Age of Stone are invested with magic qualities , and Mr. Macritchie has gone so far as to assume that the various so - called fairy houses and fairy hills which abound in Europe are really the abodes of a ...
... stone axe and arrow head of the Age of Stone are invested with magic qualities , and Mr. Macritchie has gone so far as to assume that the various so - called fairy houses and fairy hills which abound in Europe are really the abodes of a ...
Side 15
... stone . Laliya , by pos- session of the stone , acquired great wealth , and was finally attacked by the king's troops . At last he was obliged to throw the stone into the Bhadar river , where it still lies , but once some iron chains ...
... stone . Laliya , by pos- session of the stone , acquired great wealth , and was finally attacked by the king's troops . At last he was obliged to throw the stone into the Bhadar river , where it still lies , but once some iron chains ...
Side 17
... STONES PROTECTIVES . Precious stones possess similar value . Sir Thomas Brown would not deny that bezoar was antidotal , but he could not bring himself to believe that " sapphire is preservative against enchantments . " In one special ...
... STONES PROTECTIVES . Precious stones possess similar value . Sir Thomas Brown would not deny that bezoar was antidotal , but he could not bring himself to believe that " sapphire is preservative against enchantments . " In one special ...
Side 18
... stones have tales and qualities of their own . Once upon a time a holy man came and settled at Panna who had a diamond ... stone in India . If you bathe wearing a turquoise , the water touched by it protects the wearer from boils , and ...
... stones have tales and qualities of their own . Once upon a time a holy man came and settled at Panna who had a diamond ... stone in India . If you bathe wearing a turquoise , the water touched by it protects the wearer from boils , 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.