The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 10
... throw a live coal into the beer vat to avert the influence of the fairies , and a cow's milk was secured against them by a burning coal being passed across her back and under her belly immediately after calving . In India , if a cow ...
... throw a live coal into the beer vat to avert the influence of the fairies , and a cow's milk was secured against them by a burning coal being passed across her back and under her belly immediately after calving . In India , if a cow ...
Side 11
... throw a dirty duster over the withers of a horse while it is feeding , and they are the more particular to do this ... throws a little into the fire , and when a man is having a specially good dinner , he should select an auspicious ...
... throw a dirty duster over the withers of a horse while it is feeding , and they are the more particular to do this ... throws a little into the fire , and when a man is having a specially good dinner , he should select an auspicious ...
Side 15
... throw the stone into the Bhadar river , where it still lies , but once some iron chains were let down into the water , and when they touched it the links were converted into gold . ' GOLD AND SILVER PROTECTIVES . Gold , and in a less ...
... throw the stone into the Bhadar river , where it still lies , but once some iron chains were let down into the water , and when they touched it the links were converted into gold . ' GOLD AND SILVER PROTECTIVES . Gold , and in a less ...
Side 21
... thrown into the fire . This reminds us of the flight of the Evil One into the remote parts of Egypt from the smell of the fish liver burnt by Tobit , and an old writer says : 66 Wyse clerkes knoweth well that dragons hate nothyng more ...
... thrown into the fire . This reminds us of the flight of the Evil One into the remote parts of Egypt from the smell of the fish liver burnt by Tobit , and an old writer says : 66 Wyse clerkes knoweth well that dragons hate nothyng more ...
Side 22
... " Etruscan Roman Remains , " 260 , 279 ; Hartland , " Legend of Perseus , " ii . 258 sqq . 3 Brand , loc . cit . , 724 . 2 " Folk - lore , " iv . 358 , 361 . his head , thrown into the fire , and he 22 FOLK - LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA .
... " Etruscan Roman Remains , " 260 , 279 ; Hartland , " Legend of Perseus , " ii . 258 sqq . 3 Brand , loc . cit . , 724 . 2 " Folk - lore , " iv . 358 , 361 . his head , thrown into the fire , and he 22 FOLK - LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA .
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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.