Omens and Superstitions of Southern IndiaMcBride, Nast & Company, 1912 - 320 strán (strany) |
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animal Arcot District auspicious Badaga believed Bellary district betel Bishop Whitehead blood body Brahman buried called carried caste cattle ceremony charm child cloth cobra cocoanut crop crows Cuddapah District cure death deity devil evil eye evil spirits Fawcett feast festival figure flowers fowl Ganjam Gazetteer girl goat Godavari district goddess gods grain hair hand head hill Hindu human sacrifice jungle killed Kondhs Koravas Koyis Kurumba leaf leaves Madras Museum Bull magic magician Malabar mantrams margosa marriage milk mouth Muhammadan Mysore Native neck Nilgiris offered omen Palni Pandava Paraiyans performed person piece placed possessed priest propitiated pūja pūjāri Pulluvan rice round rupees sacred sacrificed scorpion serpent shrine silver snake sometimes sorcerer South Arcot South Canara Southern India stone supposed Tamil Telugu temple temple car tiger Tirupati Travancore tree turmeric unlucky victim village Vishu Vizagapatam Walhouse woman women worship Yerukala
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Strana 200 - O God we offer the sacrifice to you — give us good crops, seasons and health", after which they address the victim, "We bought you with a price, and did not seize you — now we sacrifice you according to custom, and no sin rests on us.
Strana 203 - Government to help in putting an end for ever to the inhuman and barbarous practices, writes * that " one of the most common ways of offering the sacrifice in Chinna Kidemy is to the effigy of an elephant, + rudely carved in wood, fixed on the top of a stout post, on which it is made to revolve. After the performance of the usual ceremonies, the intended victim is fastened to the proboscis of the elephant, and, amidst the shouts and yells of the excited multitude of Khonds, is rapidly whirled round,...
Strana 203 - ... who hacked and tore away scraps of flesh to bury in their fields, chanting the while a ghastly hymn, an extract from which illustrates very clearly the theory of sympathetic magic underlying the ritual:— As the tears stream from thine eyes, So may the rain pour down in Asar; As the mucus trickles from thy nostrils.
Strana 247 - A figure representing the enemy to be destroyed is drawn on a small sheet of metal, gold by preference, and to it are added some mystic diagrams. It is then addressed, stating that bodily injury or death of the person shall take place at a certain time. This little sheet is wrapped up in another metal sheet or leaf (gold if possible), and buried in some place where...
Strana 131 - ... will. Sometimes the gods appear in the bodies of all these females and sometimes only in those of a select few or none at all. The refusal of the gods to enter into such persons is symbolical of some want of cleanliness and purity in them; which contingency is looked upon as a source of anxiety to the individual. It may also suggest the displeasure of these gods towards the family in respect of which the ceremony is performed. In either case, such refusal on the part of the gods is an index of...
Strana 18 - Konna tree, a measure of rice, a so-called looking-glass made of bell-metal, and a few other things, are all tastefully arranged in the vessel and placed in a prominent room inside the house. On either side of this vessel two brass or bell-metal lamps filled with cocoanut oil " clear as diamond sparks " are kept intensely burning and a small plank of wood or some other seat is placed in front of it. At about 5 o'clock in the morning of the day some one who has got up first wakes up the inmates, both...
Strana 45 - to different Bramins he gave a black buffalo, a milch buffalo, a male buffalo, a black she-goat, a jacket of coarse black cloth, a cap of the same material, ninety rupees, and an iron pot § t tn I o U.
Strana 167 - Before the eyes are made, it is not accounted a god, but a lump of ordinary metal, and thrown about the shop with no more regard than anything else. But, when the eyes are to be made, the artificer is to have a good gratification, besides the first agreed upon reward. The eyes being formed, it is thenceforward a god.
Strana 188 - There is no God but God ; Muhammad is the Prophet of God ; " and that this leaf alone falls.
Strana 168 - The Eyes being formed, it is thenceforward a God. And then, being brought with honour from the Workman's Shop, it is dedicated by Solemnities and Sacrifices, and carried with great state into its shrine or little house, which is before built and prepared for it.