Notes on the spirit basis of belief and custom. (Rough draft).Government Central Press, 1885 - 510 sider |
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Africa Ahmadnagar Anthrop Avesta Belgaum believed Bengal betelnut Bijapur body Bombay Bráhmans Brand's Pop bride and bridegroom called ceremony child cloth cocoanut Crowns Cult cure Dalton dance darbha grass dead Deccan devil Dhárwár diseases Dubois Dyer's Folk Lore East Africa England evil eye evil spirits exorcist festival fire flowers Freemasonry girl goddess gods Gonds grass Gray's China Grimm's Teuto guardian Gujarát hair hands head Henderson's Folk Lore Hindus Hislop holy Jour Kánara Khonds king Konkan Kunbis Lingayats Madagascar Marátha marriage mother Musalmáns Mysore Myth offered P. B. Joshi Papuans Pársis Poona Prabhus priest Prim Races of Scot red powder rice rites Roman round rubbed sacred salt Sanskrit says scare spirits Scotland Shiv Shway Yoe's sick spirit-scaring sprinkled stone temple Thána thread tree tribes turmeric Vaishnav Vetál village Vishnu Ward's View wear wedding White Nile witches woman women worship XVIII Yoe's The Burman
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Side 382 - England, the juvenile part of both sexes were wont to rise a little after midnight on the morning of that day, and walk to some neighbouring wood, accompanied with music and the blowing of horns, where they broke down branches from the trees and adorned them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. This done, they returned homewards with their booty about the time of sunrise, and made their doors and windows triumph in the flowery spoil.
Side 508 - Within the memory of our Fathers, in Shropshire, in those villages adjoyning to Wales, when a person dyed, there was notice given to an old Sire, (for so they called him,) who presently repaired to the place where the deceased lay, and stood before the door of the house, when some of the Family came out and furnished him with a Cricket on which he sat down facing the door. Then they gave him a Groat, which he put in his pocket ; a Crust of Bread, which he eat ; and a full bowle of Ale, which he drank...
Side 397 - When a child was baptized privately, it was, not long since, customary to put the child upon a clean basket, having a cloth previously spread over it, with bread and cheese put into the cloth ; and thus to move the basket three times successively round the iron crook, which hangs over the fire, from the roof of the house, for the purpose of supporting the pots when water is boiled, or victuals are prepared. This...
Side 273 - They cut a square trench in the ground, leaving the turf in the middle ; on that they make a fire of wood, on which they dress a large caudle of eggs, butter, oatmeal, and milk, and bring, besides the ingredients of the caudle, plenty of beer and whisky ; for each of the company must contribute something. The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation ; on that, every one takes a cake of oatmeal...
Side 51 - 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 - In some parts of the North of England it has been a custom from time immemorial for the lads and lasses of the neighbouring villages to collect together at springs or rivers on some Sunday in May, to drink sugar and water, where the lasses give the treat: this is called Sugar-and-Water Sunday.
Side 325 - The custom of visiting this well in pilgrimage, and offering up devotions there, is not yet entirely set aside. In the summer a few are still to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours, sending up their prayers, or performing a number of evolutions round the polygonal well.
Side 33 - SPELL. HOLY water come and bring ; Cast in salt, for seasoning : Set the brush for sprinkling : Sacred spittle bring ye hither ; Meale and it now mix together ; And a little oyle to either : Give the tapers here their light, Ring the saints-bell, to affright Far from hence the evill sp'rite.
Side 338 - Dusrah feast ; and on the evening of the tenth day a grand repast is prepared, to which the whole family is invited. An intoxicating drug is contrived to be mixed with the food of the intended victim, who is often a stranger whom the master of the house has for several months, perhaps years, treated with the greatest kindness and attention ; and sometimes, to lull suspicion, gives him his daughter in marriage.
Side 243 - ... them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. When this is done they return with their booty homewards, about the rising of the sun, and make their doors and windows to triumph in the flowery spoil. The...