The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 2A. Constable & Company, 1896 |
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Side 2
... witches and wizards are said to be , as a rule , evil - eyed . Of the rest , those persons only who are born under certain circumstances are believed to be evil - eyed . The circumstances are as follows : -Among the Hindus it is ...
... witches and wizards are said to be , as a rule , evil - eyed . Of the rest , those persons only who are born under certain circumstances are believed to be evil - eyed . The circumstances are as follows : -Among the Hindus it is ...
Side 5
... witch if she learns the real name can work her evil charms through it . Hence arises the use of many contractions and perversions of the real name and many of the nicknames which are generally given to children , as well as the ordinary ...
... witch if she learns the real name can work her evil charms through it . Hence arises the use of many contractions and perversions of the real name and many of the nicknames which are generally given to children , as well as the ordinary ...
Side 11
... witch , or demon . A mother while dressing her baby makes a black mark on its cheek , and before a man eats betel he pinches off the corner of the leaf as a safe- guard . When food is taken to the labourer in the field , a piece of ...
... witch , or demon . A mother while dressing her baby makes a black mark on its cheek , and before a man eats betel he pinches off the corner of the leaf as a safe- guard . When food is taken to the labourer in the field , a piece of ...
Side 33
... witches on the wedding night . And Hudibras tells how- 1 Yule , " Marco Polo , " ii . 69 , 99 ; Herodotus , v . 6 ; and for the Dacians , Pliny , " Natural History , " vii . 10 ; xxii . 2 . 2 Loc . cit . , ii . 218 . 3 Hislop , " Papers ...
... witches on the wedding night . And Hudibras tells how- 1 Yule , " Marco Polo , " ii . 69 , 99 ; Herodotus , v . 6 ; and for the Dacians , Pliny , " Natural History , " vii . 10 ; xxii . 2 . 2 Loc . cit . , ii . 218 . 3 Hislop , " Papers ...
Side 34
... witches . The Pûna Kunbis believe that a drink of water from a tanner's hand destroys the power of a witch . In the Panjâb , if a man sits on a currier's stone , he gets boils . * The same principle probably accounts for much of the ...
... witches . The Pûna Kunbis believe that a drink of water from a tanner's hand destroys the power of a witch . In the Panjâb , if a man sits on a currier's stone , he gets boils . * The same principle probably accounts for much of the ...
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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.