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The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2) — William Crooke

The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2)

William Crooke

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 554 pages

This is the second volume of William Crooke’s ethnographic essays on the popular religion and folk-lore of Northern India. Its chapters survey beliefs in the evil eye, tree and serpent worship, totemism and fetishism, animal-worship, the black art, and rural festivals. It offers listeners a careful view of everyday beliefs and customs recorded in colonial-era scholarship.

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Contents

  1. CONTENTS.
  2. FOLK-LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA. CHAPTER I. THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.
  3. CHAPTER II. TREE AND SERPENT WORSHIP.
  4. CHAPTER III. TOTEMISM AND FETISHISM.
  5. CHAPTER IV. ANIMAL-WORSHIP.
  6. CHAPTER V. THE BLACK ART.
  7. CHAPTER VI. SOME RURAL FESTIVALS AND CEREMONIES.
  8. BIBLIOGRAPHY.
  9. INDEX.
  10. Colophon
  11. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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