The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Bind 1A. Constable & Company, 1896 - 653 sider |
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Side 39
... disease . Even the wicked Râja Vena , who was , as we have seen , a type of old - world impiety , was cured , like Naaman the Syrian , of his leprosy by bathing in the Sâraswati , the lost river of the Indian desert . Even minor streams ...
... disease . Even the wicked Râja Vena , who was , as we have seen , a type of old - world impiety , was cured , like Naaman the Syrian , of his leprosy by bathing in the Sâraswati , the lost river of the Indian desert . Even minor streams ...
Side 43
... disease . The Baiga catches a fish which he presents to the Deo , but if any one but a Baiga dares to drink there , the water bubbles up and the demon sweeps him away . Like this Deo of Mirzapur , most of these water demons are ...
... disease . The Baiga catches a fish which he presents to the Deo , but if any one but a Baiga dares to drink there , the water bubbles up and the demon sweeps him away . Like this Deo of Mirzapur , most of these water demons are ...
Side 48
... disease is sent away in many parts of the world . Another curious function is , in popular belief , allotted to Khwâja Khizr , that of haunting markets in the early morning and fixing the rates of grain , which he also protects from the ...
... disease is sent away in many parts of the world . Another curious function is , in popular belief , allotted to Khwâja Khizr , that of haunting markets in the early morning and fixing the rates of grain , which he also protects from the ...
Side 50
... disease . In Ireland , the first water drawn from a sacred well after midnight on May Eve is considered an effective antidote to witchcraft . In India many wells have a reputa- tion for curing barrenness , which is universally regarded ...
... disease . In Ireland , the first water drawn from a sacred well after midnight on May Eve is considered an effective antidote to witchcraft . In India many wells have a reputa- tion for curing barrenness , which is universally regarded ...
Side 59
... disease was passing by , and his Rânî dreamt that he should eat some of the confervæ on the surface . He ate it , and was cured ; and next night the Rânî dreamt that there was a vast treasure concealed there , which when dug up was ...
... disease was passing by , and his Rânî dreamt that he should eat some of the confervæ on the surface . He ate it , and was cured ; and next night the Rânî dreamt that there was a vast treasure concealed there , which when dug up was ...
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Archæological Reports Baiga bathing believed Benares Bengal Berkeley Bhairon Bhût Bihâr Bombay Bombay Gazetteer Brâhman buried called Campbell ceremony child cholera Churel custom Daksha dead death deity demon Descriptive Ethnology Devî disease District Drâvidian earth evil spirits fairies Faqîr folk-lore Folk-tales Ganges ghost goat goddess godling gods Golden Bough Gonds grain Hanumân head Hills Hindu Hinduism holy honour Indra Katha Sarit Sâgara killed known Korwas Kumaun legend malignant marriage Masân Mâtâ Mathura Mirzapur Mirzapur District moon mother Muhammadan Musalmân Narmadâ Nepâl night North Indian Notes North-Western Provinces Northern India Notes and Queries offering Ojha Oudh Panjâb Notes Pîr priest primitive propitiated races rain Râja Râkshasa rice rite river round sacred sacrifice saint Satî scare Settlement Report shrine Sîtalâ Siva soul stone supposed temple tomb tree tribes Tylor Upper India village Vishnu wife woman women worship
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Side 21 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects : love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide : in cities, mutinies ; in countries, discord ; in palaces, treason ; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.
Side 107 - ... soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep ; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again. This is that very Mab That plats the manes of horses in the night, And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which once untangled much misfortune bodes...
Side 168 - THE passing bell was anciently rung for two purposes ; one, to bespeak the prayers of all good Christians for a soul just departing; the other, to drive away the evil spirits who stood at the bed's foot and about the house, ready to seize their prey, or at least to molest and terrify the soul in its passage...
Side 14 - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry," under " February" gave the following advice— " Sow peason and beans, in the wane of the moon, Who soweth them sooner, he soweth too soon, That they with the planet may rest and arise, And flourish, with bearing most plentiful! wise.
Side 67 - God.6 [They always go in a state of dirt and uncleanness, devoid of respect for themselves, or for those who see them, unwashed, unkempt, and sordidly attired.] These people also have a custom which I must tell you. If a man is condemned to death and executed by the lawful authority, they take his body and cook and eat it. But if any one die a natural death then they will not eat the...
Side 14 - In such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew And saw the lion's shadow ere himself And ran dismayed away. LORENZO. In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love To come again to Carthage. JESSICA. In such a night Medea gathered the enchanted herbs That did renew old Aeson.
Side 150 - The whole universe is subject to the gods; the gods are subject to the Mantras; the Mantras to the Brahmans; therefore the Brahmans are our gods V Often these Mantra-sastrls are mere fortune-tellers.
Side 172 - The people think that one man is thus singled out as a scapegoat for the sins of the rest of the village. In the temple of the Moon the Albanians of the Eastern Caucasus kept a number of sacred slaves, of whom many were inspired and prophesied. When one of these men exhibited more than usual symptoms of inspiration...
Side 180 - Racshases rend in pieces an obla' tion which has no such preservative. 205. ' Let an offering to the gods be made at the ' beginning and end of the srdddha : it must not begin ' and end with an offering to ancestors ; for he, who ' begins and ends it with an oblation to the Pitris, ' quickly perishes with his progeny.
Side 167 - ... noise they intended to make might not excite any alarm, and bring down upon them the visit of the soldiery. It was, however, subsequently determined, that the animal should be a goat ; and he was driven before the crowd accordingly. I have on several occasions been requested to allow of such noisy poojahs in cases of epidemics ; and the confidence the people feel in their efficacy has no doubt a good effect.