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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
Read record →One of the most noted witch-finders in the Bilâspur District of the Central Provinces had two most effectual means of checkmating the witches
Read record →Several persons, natives of the Khasiya Hills, were convicted of beating to death a man whom they believed to be a wizard
Read record →If a man repeats it forwards, he will become invisible to his neighbour; but if he repeats it backwards, he will assume whatever shape he desires." [760] The use of this charm enables the witch to take the liver out of a living child and eat it
Read record →In Bastar, if a man is adjudged guilty of witchcraft, he is beaten by the crowd, his hair is shaved, the hair being supposed to constitute his power of mischief, his front teeth are knocked out, in order, it is said, to prevent him from muttering incantations,
Read record →A terrible raid was made on these unfortunate people when British authority was relaxed during the Mutiny, and most atrocious murders were committed
Read record →He quotes a case in 1802, in which several of the witnesses declared that they remembered numerous instances of persons being put to death for sorcery; one of them, in particular, proved that her mother had been tried and executed as a witch
Read record →One favourite way of counteracting the spells of a witch is to draw blood from her
Read record →Marco Polo makes the same assertion about Pachai in Badakhshân
Read record →In Gorakhpur, he says, the Tonahis or witches were very numerous, "but some Judge sent an order that no one should presume to injure another by enchantment
Read record →At the present day the half-deified witch most dreaded in the Eastern Districts of the North-Western Provinces is Lonâ, or Nonâ, a Chamârin, or woman of the currier caste
Read record →The Palwâr Râjputs of Oudh have a witch ancestress
Read record →The history of witchcraft in India, as in Europe, is one of the saddest pages in the annals of the people
Read record →In Northern India there are certain days on which ploughing is forbidden, such as the Nâgpanchamî or snake feast held on the fifth of the light half of Sâwan, and the fifteenth of the month Kârttik
Read record →General Sleeman gives a case of a cowherd who saw in a vision that the water of the Biyâs river should be taken up in pitchers and conveyed to the fields attacked with blight, but that none of it should be allowed to fall on the ground in the way
Read record →upon a narrow knife-edge between two awful eternities, and that, here and now, they have to finish with make-beliefs, and with real earnestness and courage face those truths which have always been palpable where indolence, or cowardice, or vested interests hav
Read record →The first is that in the Bible, which is the foundation of our present religious thought, we have bound together the living and the dead, and the dead has tainted the living
Read record →On the one hand, you had a material, earth-bound spirit of a low order of development which needed a physical medium in order to be able to indicate its presence
Read record →Crookes' letters upon the subject are still extant
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