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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Opening of the book
FOLK-LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA YAMA, GOD OF DEATH, BORNE BY HIS MESSENGERS. YAMA, GOD OF DEATH, BORNE BY HIS MESSENGERS. Original Title Page. THE POPULAR RELIGION
AND FOLK-LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA BY W. CROOKE, B.A. BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ILLUSTRATED WESTMINSTER ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. 2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W. 1896
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE The Evil Eye and the Scaring of Ghosts 1 CHAPTER II. Tree and Serpent Worship 83 CHAPTER III. Totemism and Fetishism 146 CHAPTER IV. Animal-Worship 201 CHAPTER V. The Black Art 259 CHAPTER VI. Some Rural Festivals and Ceremonies 287 Bibliography 327
333 Index
FOLK-LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA. CHAPTER I. THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS. Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos. Virgil, Eclogues, iii. 103.
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