| William Wilson Hunter - 1877 - 394 sider
...This is held in the month of Mdgh, or January, when the granaries are full of grain, and the people, to use their own expression, full of devilry. They...vicious propensities, that it is absolutely necessary to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions. The festival, therefore, becomes... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - 1878 - 530 sider
...The Hos excuse their conduct at the Magh Festival by saying that they are then so full of devilry, " 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." At other times, says Colonel Dalton, they are quiet and reserved... | |
| James George Frazer - 1890 - 430 sider
...in January, when the granaries are full of grain, and the people, to use their own expression, are full of devilry. "They have a strange notion that...safety of the person to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions." The ceremonies open with a sacrifice to the village god of three... | |
| James MacDonald - 1893 - 284 sider
...Pondos are not singular in their observance of harvest customs. The Hos of North-east India have a notion that at this period men and women are so overcharged...vicious propensities that it is absolutely necessary to let off steam by allowing * J. Sutton, MS. notes. for a time full vent to their passions.* For the... | |
| William Crooke - 1894 - 442 sider
...held in January, " when the granaries are full ThiDitavlloftktSot. , V , ^ . of gram, and the people, to use their own expression, ' full of devilry.' They...to the passions. The festival, therefore, becomes a Saturnalia, during which servants forget their duty to their masters, children their reverence for... | |
| Edward Westermarck - 1894 - 678 sider
...Dalton, every year a great feast in January, " when the granaries are full of grain, and the people, to use their own expression, full of devilry. They...safety of the person to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions. The festival, therefore, becomes a saturnalia, during which servants... | |
| Henry T. Finck - 1899 - 860 sider
...by the Hos in January, when the granaries are full of wheat and the natives " full of deviltry :" " They have a strange notion that at this period men...safety of the person to let off steam by allowing, for a time, full vent to the passions. The festival therefore becomes a saturnale, during which servants... | |
| James George Frazer - 1900 - 522 sider
...in January, when the granaries arc full of grain, and the people, to use their own expression, are full of devilry. " They have a strange notion that...safety of the person to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions." The ceremonies open with a sacrifice to the village god of three... | |
| Edward Westermarck - 1901 - 676 sider
...Dalton, every year a great feast in January, " when the granaries are full of grain, and the people, to use their own expression, full of devilry. They...safety of the person to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions. The festival, therefore, becomes a saturnalia, during which servants... | |
| James George Frazer - 1913 - 480 sider
...They have a strange notion Eastern that at this period, men and women are so overcharged with harvest. vicious propensities, that it is absolutely necessary...safety of the person to let off steam by allowing for a time full vent to the passions." The ceremonies open with a sacrifice to the village god of three... | |
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