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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part III Anthropology and Cognate Subjects 1898

1898

It is also believed that when the promised sweets are given to the crows on the roof of a house or on an open place the birds assemble but do not eat the sweets until the particular crow to whom the sweets had been promised arrives there and begins to eat the same.t In Behar also omens are drawn from the cawings of the crow as will appear from the following text in Sanskrit and its commenta [...] The word so or :or however may probably have also meant the rain of the eyes' or tears ' and thus was perhaps used by the toiling Lepchas in the pessimistic sense of tearful world.' The phrase prefixed to field namely Ku-Z.:LA-Ina means literally bosom-stone-below ' and poetically pictures the fields as clothing the bosom of the stones. [...] We are the eons of the (one-) Mother-flesh jolly Rouge We were made along with the so-la-non Bsunboos 19 And the ar-taam Bamboo-joints and the small reed Bamboos " We the sons of the (one-) Mother-flesh jolly Rouge Are of equal age (with the Bamboos) ! The following are love-laments the first by a languishing spinster and the others by swains. [...] Among the Bushmen of South Africa the hare displays much the Bayne cunning as the rabbit among the American negroes the fox or the Reynard in European folk-lore and the jackal and the monkey in Indian folk-tales. [...] Hearing of this the jackal came and demanded of the tanner the restitution of the girl he had made over to the latter.
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Pages
56
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
VII.—Bengali and Behari Folk-lore about Birds. Part I.—By Carat Candra Mitra M.A. B.L. Corresponding Member of the Anthropological Society of Bombay. Communicated by the Anthropological Secretary
67-74 unknown view
VIII.—The Lepcha or Rong Language as illustrated in its Songs.— By L. A. Waddell LL.D.
75-85 unknown view
IX.—On Coincidences between some Bengali Nursery Stories and South Indian Folk-tales.—By Carat Candra Mitra M.A. B.L. Corresponding Member of the Anthropological Society of Bombay. Communicated by the Anthropological Secretary
86-102 unknown view
X.—Scraps of Hindu Folk-lore No. II.—By Pandit Rāmgharib Chaure. Late Pandit to W. Crooke Esq. I. C. S. (Retired). Editor of the North Indian Notes and Queries. Communicated by the Anthropological Secretary
103-109 unknown view
XI.—On the Kurmis of Bihār Chutiā Nāgpuur. and Orissa.—By G. A. Grierson C.I.E. I.C.S. Ph.D.
110-111 unknown view
XII.—Note on the Hari-Āllāh sect.—By Maulavi Abdul Wall
112-112 unknown view
XIII.—Note on the Chitliyā Faqirs.—By Maulavi Abdul Wall
112-115 unknown view
XIV.—Note on some tribal and family names employed in speaking of the inhabitants of the Lushai Hills.—By Major John Shakespear C.I.E. D.S.O. I.S.C. Superintendent of the Ltushai Hills. Communicated by Dr. G. A. Grierson C.I.E. I.C.S.
116-117 unknown view
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