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Folk Lore Notes. Gujarati

1914

3. Give any customs of moving round temples or sacred objects in the course of the sun in the heavens: cases in which women after childbirth are exposed to the sun: conception believed to be caused by exposure to the rays of the sun : the use of the Swastika as an emblem. [...] What beliefs are current as to the state of the soul after death ; the path to the other world; the condition of souls in the other world; the possibility of the soul returning thence? [...] Illustrate the prevalence of earth burial and cremation the customs of shaving the hair placing food or other articles for the use of the dead. [...] The days for special worship are the Navaratra holidays the Second day of the bright half of Ashiidh the ninth month of the Hindu Calendar 1 DiväsTiG or the fifteenth day of the dark half of Asluidh and Kali4hadas7 or the fourteenth day of the dark ltalf of Ashvin the last month ; besides other extrordinary occasions when a spirit has to be exorcised'out of a sick person. [...] A 1/h-full of water is then passed. round the head of the ailing person (or animal) to be charmed and the contents arc swallowed by the exorcist to show that ha has swallowed in the water all the ills the flesh of the patient is heir to.' In the cure of certain diseasos by exorciing the process known as utar is sometimes gone through.
literature fiction
Pages
172
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143838
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iv A.M.T. Jackson view
Frontmatter
i-ix A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter I. Nature Powers
1-53 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter II. Heroic Godlings
54-73 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter III. Disease Deities
74-88 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter IV. Worship of Ancestors and Saints
89-101 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter V. Worship Of The Malevolent Dead
102-119 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter VI. The Evil eye and the Scaring of Ghosts
120-135 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter VII. Tree and Serpent Worship
136-143 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter VIII. Totemism and Fetishism
144-149 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter IX. Animal Worship
150-151 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter X. Witchcraft
152-152 A.M.T. Jackson view
Chapter XI. General
153-159 A.M.T. Jackson view

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