Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging from observations made on the person of the infant , determines which of his ...
... Khonds of Orissa , births are celebrated by a feast on the seventh day , and the priest , divining by dropping rice - grains in a cup of water , and judging from observations made on the person of the infant , determines which of his ...
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... ( Khonds ) ; Hunter , ' Rural Bengal , ' p . 183 ( Santals ) . 6 4 Castrén , ' Finn . Myth . ' p . 122 ; Bastian , Psychologie , ' p . 90. See Pal- grave , Arabia , ' vol . i . p . 373 . * Siebold , ' Nippon , ' vol . i . p . 3 , vol . ii ...
... ( Khonds ) ; Hunter , ' Rural Bengal , ' p . 183 ( Santals ) . 6 4 Castrén , ' Finn . Myth . ' p . 122 ; Bastian , Psychologie , ' p . 90. See Pal- grave , Arabia , ' vol . i . p . 373 . * Siebold , ' Nippon , ' vol . i . p . 3 , vol . ii ...
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... Khonds of Orissa try with thorns , and ditches , and stinking oil poured on the ground , to barricade the paths to their hamlets against the goddess of small - pox , Jugah Pennu.3 Among the Dayaks of Borneo , " to have been 1 Oldfield ...
... Khonds of Orissa try with thorns , and ditches , and stinking oil poured on the ground , to barricade the paths to their hamlets against the goddess of small - pox , Jugah Pennu.3 Among the Dayaks of Borneo , " to have been 1 Oldfield ...
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... Khonds of Orissa , Mac- pherson describes the greater gods and tribal manes , and below these the order of minor and local deities : " They are the tutelary gods of every spot on earth , having power over the functions of nature which ...
... Khonds of Orissa , Mac- pherson describes the greater gods and tribal manes , and below these the order of minor and local deities : " They are the tutelary gods of every spot on earth , having power over the functions of nature which ...
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... Khonds hold that their flitting ethereal gods , invisible to man , are seen by beasts . The thought holds no small place in the folklore of the world . Telemachos could not discern Athene standing near him , for not to all do the gods ...
... Khonds hold that their flitting ethereal gods , invisible to man , are seen by beasts . The thought holds no small place in the folklore of the world . Telemachos could not discern Athene standing near him , for not to all do the gods ...
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