The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India, Volume 1 |
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... rules the choirs of fairies in his heaven Indra - loka : Varuna , as Barun , has also be . come a degraded weather godling , and sailors worship their boat as his fetish when they commence a voyage . The worship of Agni survives in the ...
... rules the choirs of fairies in his heaven Indra - loka : Varuna , as Barun , has also be . come a degraded weather godling , and sailors worship their boat as his fetish when they commence a voyage . The worship of Agni survives in the ...
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... rule , served by priests of the Brāhman castes or one of the ascetic orders : their offerings are such things as are ... rules the ghosts and demons of the village and is always drawn from one of the Drāvidian tribes . In the plain ...
... rule , served by priests of the Brāhman castes or one of the ascetic orders : their offerings are such things as are ... rules the ghosts and demons of the village and is always drawn from one of the Drāvidian tribes . In the plain ...
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... rules of his order to eat except in the day - time , and was afraid that he would be compelled to practise an unwilling ... rule by which it is forbidden to eat after sunset , lest insects may enter the mouth and be destroyed . This over ...
... rules of his order to eat except in the day - time , and was afraid that he would be compelled to practise an unwilling ... rule by which it is forbidden to eat after sunset , lest insects may enter the mouth and be destroyed . This over ...
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... rule when we pass the decanters round our dinner tables . In the same way in India the bride and bridegroom are made to revolve round the sacred fire or the central pole of the marriage - shed in the course of the sun ; the pilgrim ...
... rule when we pass the decanters round our dinner tables . In the same way in India the bride and bridegroom are made to revolve round the sacred fire or the central pole of the marriage - shed in the course of the sun ; the pilgrim ...
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... rule applies all over Northern India , and the phases of the moon exercise an important influence on all agricultural operations . Based on the same principle is the custom of drinking the moon . Among Muhammadans in Oudh , " a silver ...
... rule applies all over Northern India , and the phases of the moon exercise an important influence on all agricultural operations . Based on the same principle is the custom of drinking the moon . Among Muhammadans in Oudh , " a silver ...
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Archęological Reports Baiga bathing believed Benares Bengal Berkeley Bhairon Bhūt Bihār Bombay Bombay Gazetteer Brāhman buried called Campbell ceremony child cholera Churel custom Daksha dead death deity demon Descriptive Ethnology Devī disease District Drāvidian earth evil spirits fairies Faqīr folk-lore Folk-tales Ganges ghost goat goddess godling gods Golden Bough Gonds grain Hanumān head Hills Hindu Hinduism holy honour Indra Katha Sarit Sāgara killed known Korwas Kumaun legend malignant marriage Masān Mātā Mathura Mirzapur Mirzapur District moon mother Muhammadan Musalmān Narmadā Nepāl night North Indian Notes North-Western Provinces Northern India Notes and Queries offering Ojha Oudh Panjāb Notes Pīr priest primitive propitiated races rain Rāja Rākshasa rice rite river round sacred sacrifice saint Satī scare Settlement Report shrine Sītalā Siva soul stone supposed temple tomb tree tribes Tylor Upper India village Vishnu wife woman women worship
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.