The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 14
... wild Irish , we are told , used to hang round the necks of children the beginning of St. John's Gospel , a crooked nail out of a horse - shoe , or a piece of wolf - skin . ' Why the horse - shoe should be used in this way has been much ...
... wild Irish , we are told , used to hang round the necks of children the beginning of St. John's Gospel , a crooked nail out of a horse - shoe , or a piece of wolf - skin . ' Why the horse - shoe should be used in this way has been much ...
Side 49
... wild boar in their stables , in order that the Jinn and evil spirits may be diverted from the horses and enter into the boar . For the same reason an English groom is fond of keeping a cat near his horses . The If a dog flaps its ears ...
... wild boar in their stables , in order that the Jinn and evil spirits may be diverted from the horses and enter into the boar . For the same reason an English groom is fond of keeping a cat near his horses . The If a dog flaps its ears ...
Side 76
... wild legend , which tells how long ago an unmarried girl of the tribe died , and was being cremated . While the relations were collecting wood for the pyre , a ghost entered the corpse , but the friends managed to expel him . Since then ...
... wild legend , which tells how long ago an unmarried girl of the tribe died , and was being cremated . While the relations were collecting wood for the pyre , a ghost entered the corpse , but the friends managed to expel him . Since then ...
Side 82
... wild beasts , and people who are oppressed resort to his shrine for justice . Except in name he seems to have nothing to say to Kâlu Kahâr , who was born of a Kahâr girl , who by magical charms compelled King Solomon to marry her . His ...
... wild beasts , and people who are oppressed resort to his shrine for justice . Except in name he seems to have nothing to say to Kâlu Kahâr , who was born of a Kahâr girl , who by magical charms compelled King Solomon to marry her . His ...
Side 95
... wild flowers , such as autumn yields to the Hill men with a bountiful hand . The homely ritual of the Kharwâr then follows , and is finished with the offering of corn and molasses . The worship over , the head of the village community ...
... wild flowers , such as autumn yields to the Hill men with a bountiful hand . The homely ritual of the Kharwâr then follows , and is finished with the offering of corn and molasses . The worship over , the head of the village community ...
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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.