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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
Ethnographic Notes in Southern India.
With 40 plates. Second Impression. Demy 8vo, cloth. 7s.
6d. net.
This volume represents the results of many years of research into South Indian manners and customs, surviving, moribund, or deceased. Among the subjects dealt with are:—
Some marriage customs; death ceremonies; omens, evil eye, charms, animal superstitions, sorcery, etc.; votive offerings; deformity and mutilation; torture in by-gone days, and a few stray survivals; corporal punishment in vernacular schools; slavery; making fire by friction; fire-walking; hook-swinging; infanticide; meriah sacrifice; dress; names of natives; the couvade; eartheating; boomerang; steelyards, clepsydras, knuckledusters, cock-fighting, tallies, dry-cupping.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India.
By Edgar Thurston, C.I.E., assisted by K. Rangachari,
M.A., of the Madras Government Museum. With many
Illustrations. In Seven Volumes. Royal 8vo, cloth. 23s. net.
This work is of great value to ethnologists, and to those
who are interested in Indian life, religions, and customs.
It contains a mass of information as to the life,
legendary lore, and traditional practices of all the
southern Indian castes and tribes, arranged in the form of
a dictionary, and is elaborately illustrated by
reproductions of photographs. Published at the Government
Press, Madras. Agent: T. FISHER UNWIN, London
Malayan exorcist with fowl in his mouth.
Malayan exorcist with fowl in his mouth.
(See p. 246.)
Frontispiece.
Original Title Page.
Omens and Superstitions of
Southern India
By
Edgar Thurston, C.I.E.
Sometime superintendent of the Madras
Government Museum and of the Ethnographic
Survey of the Madras Presidency
T. Fisher Unwin
London: Adelphi Terrace
Leipsic: Inselstrasse 20
1912
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