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But the great serpent race was that of the Nâgas, to whom much ill-considered argument and crude speculation have been devoted
Read record →The town of Nigohan in the Lucknow District is said to have been founded by Raja Nâhuk of the Chandravansi line of kings
Read record →The old Buddhist traveller thus describes the serpent deity in the temple at Sankisa in the Farrukhâbâd District--"A white-eared dragon is the patron of this body of the priests
Read record →The sacred dragons of this kind are innumerable
Read record →Besides the sacred Nâgas there are the regular snake gods
Read record →They have got great power over milch cattle, and the milk of the eleventh day after calving is sacred to them, and libations of milk (as in the case of the Sankisa dragon) are always acceptable
Read record →Here are creatures which commonly, unlike wild animals, come into houses; come in, too, secretly at night
Read record →Snakes throughout folk-lore are the guardians of treasure
Read record →The great snake festival is the Nâgpanchamî, or "Dragon's fifth," held on the fifth day of the month of Bhâdon
Read record →In parts of the North-Western Provinces, with the usual Nâgpanchamî, is performed what is known as the Guruî festival
Read record →In Hoshangâbâd there were once two brothers, Râjawa and Soral; the ghost of the former cures snake-bite, and that of the latter cattle murrain
Read record →All through Upper India the stock remedy for snake-bite is the exorcism of the Ojha or sorcerer, a performance known as Jhâr Phûnk, consisting of a series of passes, massage, and incantations, which are supposed to disperse the venom
Read record →per India, the Kâchhis or market gardeners, and the Kachhwâha sept of Râjputs allege that they take their names from the Kachchhapa or tortoise, as the Kurmis refer their name to the Kûrma or turtle
Read record →Similar examples are numerous among the Drâvidian tribes
Read record →re stones upon the heap and sticks up a pole or flag; those who come after follow the leader; more stones and more rags are added; at last its dimensions are so considerable that it becomes the vogue; a Mullah is always at hand with a legend which he makes or
Read record →The same mysterious power is attributed to human blood
Read record →a girl had been built into the wall to render it impregnable
Read record →Similarly, the Gonds, instead of a human sacrifice, now make an image of straw, which they find answers the purpose
Read record →The fan is then carried outside the village, generally to the east or north, and being thrown away, is supposed, like the scapegoat, to bear away with it the poverty and distress of the household
Read record →In burial-grounds, especially where the bodies of those slain in battle are interred, it is said that phantom armies appear in the night
Read record →We have already seen instances of this in the pile of stones which marks the place where a tiger has killed a man, and in the cairns in honour of the jungle deities, or the spirits which infest dangerous passes
Read record →Those who haunt the house are friendly; those who haunt the tomb are unfriendly
Read record →He is, again, often the disguise of a sorcerer of evil temper, an idea similar to that which was the basis of the European dread of lycanthropy and the were-wolf
Read record →The milk of a tigress is valuable medicine, and it is one of the stock impossible tasks or tests imposed upon the hero to find and fetch it, as he is sent to get the feathers of the eagle, water from the well of death, or the mystical cow guarded by Dânos or R
Read record →The dog's muzzle is placed near the mouth of the dying Pârsi in order that it may receive his parting breath and bear it to the waiting angel, and the destruction of a corpse by dogs is looked on with no feeling of abhorrence
Read record →At Lohâru, in the Panjâb, a common-looking grave is much respected by the Hindus
Read record →In the Brâhmana of the Black Yajur Veda the kind and character of the cattle which should be slaughtered in minor sacrifices for the gratification of particular divinities are laid down in detail
Read record →It is curious that until quite recently there was a custom in the Hebrides of sewing up a man in the hide of a bull, and leaving him for the night on a hill-top, that he might become a spirit medium
Read record →The cat is everywhere invested with demoniac qualities, and is the companion of the witch
Read record →In the Garuda Purâna a tale is told of a wicked hunter who was killed by a tiger in the depths of the forest, and his ghost became a troublesome Bhût, until one day a crow carried off one of the bones and dropped it into the Ganges, when the sinner was at once
Read record →To the Hansa is ascribed the fabulous power of being able to separate milk from water after the two have been mixed together
Read record →ca, where there are no crocodiles, is the survival of an ancient recollection of the time when the ancestors of the present Kaffirs dwelt on the margins of rivers infested by these murderous brutes, and where they often saw their women drawn underneath when go
Read record →tari, the brother of the celebrated Râja Vikramaditya, who is now a godling and spends part of the day at Benares and part at the Chunâr Fort, had a fish, "the digestion of which gave him knowledge of all that occurred in the three worlds." By a divine curse t
Read record →The position of the witch has been so clearly stated by Sir A
Read record →The belief in witchcraft is general among the lower and less advanced Indian races
Read record →A belief in witchcraft is, then, primarily the heritage of the more isolated and least advanced races, like the Kols and Bhîls, Santâls and Thârus
Read record →One particularly dreaded form of witch is the Jigar Khor or liver-eater, of whom Abul Fazl gives a description: "One of this class can steal away the liver of another by looks and incantations
Read record →We have already learned to look to the folk-tales for the most trustworthy indications of popular belief, and here the dark shadow of witchcraft overclouds much of their delicate fancy
Read record →She often kills a child, and the heroine, like Genoveva, is falsely accused, and expelled from her home, until the plot is discovered and she is restored to her husband's love
Read record →"Among the troubles which the witch or magician brings upon his enemies, the following are said to be the most common in the Dakkhin as well as in the Konkan
Read record →"The Mûth generally consists of a handful of rice or Urad pulse (Phaseolus radiatus) charmed and sent by the witch against her enemy through the agency of the familiar spirit
Read record →e same way the Irish witches flit on November Eve, and "on that night mortal people should keep at home, or they will suffer for it; for souls of the dead have power over all things on that night of the year, and they hold a festival with the fairies, and drin
Read record →Campbell gives a very similar story from Bombay, in which a man-eating tiger was supposed to be a witch in disguise
Read record →Another witch was bargaining with a man for some sugar-cane
Read record →"It is the general belief that there is not a village or a single family without its witch in this part of the country
Read record →One sign of the witch is that she is accompanied by her cat
Read record →Thus, the ordeal of walking over hot coals and on heated ploughshares was a common method of testing a witch both in India and in Europe
Read record →(Shorea robusta) marked with the names of all the females of the village, whether married or unmarried, who had attained the age of twelve years, were planted in the morning in water for the space of four and a half hours; and the withering of any of these bra
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