North Indian Notes and Queries, Volumes 4-5Pioneer Press, 1894 - Folklore |
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Akbar animal asked Banya bathe began believed Benares Bengal Bhagwan Birbal body Brahman bride brother called caste ceremony Châran charm child clothes Crooke Dás daughter dead death deity demon Devi District Etah District fairy father flowers folktale told Ganges gave girl give goat goddess Guru hand head heard Hindu Hindús honour horse husband India Indra jungle Kabir Kayasth Khán killed king Krishna Lál legend lived Mahadeva marriage married milk Mirzapur Mirzapur District mother Muhammadan Narada Muni night offered once palace Pandit parrot performed Pipa Pír Popular Religion priest prince princess rain Rája Rajput Rám Gharib Chaubé Rání rice rite river round rupees sacred sacrifice Sadhu Saharanpur saint sent shrine Sikh Sinh Siva snake tank temple tiger took tree Vetala Vikramaditya village Vishnu wife woman women worship
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Page 6 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Page 28 - It is a thin unsubstantial human image, in its nature a sort of vapour, film, or shadow ; the cause of life and thought in the individual it animates; independently possessing the personal consciousness and volition of its corporeal owner, past or present ; capable of leaving the body far behind, to flash swiftly from place to place ; mostly impalpable and invisible, yet also manifesting physical power, and especially appearing to men waking or asleep as a phantasm separate from the body of which...
Page 154 - He has great faith in ginseng, and in rhinoceros horn, and in the powdered liver of some animal, which, from the description, I understood to be a tiger— all specifics of the Chinese school of medicines. Dr. Nosoki showed me a small box of "unicorn's" horn, which he said was worth more than its weight in gold!
Page 13 - Matarea; 10 And in Matarea the Lord Jesus caused a well to spring forth, in which St. Mary washed his coat; 11 And a balsam is produced, or grows, in that country from the sweat which ran down there from the Lord Jesus.
Page 34 - when a child is born, an invisible spirit is born with it ; and unless the mother keeps one breast tied up for forty days, while she feeds the child with the other (in which case the spirit dies of hunger), the child grows up with the endowment of the Evil Eye, and whenever any person so endowed looks at anything constantly, something will happen to it.
Page 191 - The Indians imagine that in the case of a drowned body, its place may be discovered by floating a chip of cedar-wood, which will stop and turn round over the exact spot. An instance occurred within my own knowledge, in the case of Mr. Lavery of Kingston Mill, whose boat overset, and himself drowned near Cedar Island ; nor could the body be discovered until this experiment was resorted to.
Page 151 - You may be quite sure," concluded Sureemunt, " when you hear of a tiger without a tail, that it is some unfortunate man who has eaten of that root — and of all the tigers he will be found the most mischievous." How my friend had satisfied himself of the truth of this story I know not, but he religiously believes it, and so do all his attendants and mine ; and out of a population of thirty thousand people in the town of Saugor, not one would doubt the story of the washerman if he heard it.
Page 5 - Singh (p. 217) where an Indian compiler is quoted.' ' ' ' The original practice of using the water in which the feet of a Sikh had been washed was soon abandoned, and the subsequent custom of touching the water with the toe seems now almost wholly forgotten. The first rule was perhaps instituted to denote the humbleness of spirit of the disciples, or both it and the second practice may have originated in that feeling of the Hindus which attaches virtue to water in which the thumb of a Brahmin has...
Page 62 - Raja, whom her husband had desired to submit to the embraces of the sage in order that he might beget .a son. The queen substituted her bondmaid Usij; the sage, cognisant of the deception, sanctified Usij, and begot by her a son, named...
Page 14 - Sun weeps a second time, and lets water fall from his eyes, it is changed into working bees ; they work in the flowers of each kind, and honey and wax are produced instead of the water. When the Sun becomes weak, he lets fall the perspiration of his members, and this changes to a liquid.