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Miscellaneous notes on religion, magic, rites, customs, prehistory, etc. with particular reference to India.
Wiley Digital Archives : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Available online
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- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rites and ceremonies--India.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Magic--India.
- Magic.
- Religion.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Production:
- 1911.
- Contents:
- Animism
- Earth stimulated by dancing
- Dolmen period
- Devi cults
- Jainism
- Jainism and Buddhism, February 2, 1898
- Temples
- Mon Kmer race
- Dravidian jaw types
- Dravidians
- Jains
- Owing to the existence of certain differences we should not be justified in assuming a common origin for Mon-Khmer languages
- Representations of Mother Earth
- Myth of separation of earth and sky
- Religion
- The earth goddess rising out of the ground
- Palaeolithic implements
- Stone weapons
- Women
- Harvest festivals
- Sowing festivals
- Cattle festivals
- Interment dolmens
- People born out of the earth
- [Glossary]
- Saturnalia
- Swinging
- Dress
- Fertility rites
- Earth with a snake
- Samoan sacred animals, July 18, 1902
- [Marriage]
- Taboo
- Mother Earth worship
- Wind spirits
- Hair offered to stimulate
- Earth stimulated by fire
- The present state of anthropology, March 12, 1910
- Seasons
- Mock fights
- Sympathetic magic through relations
- Primitive interments in Nilagirri
- Preanimism
- Iron age
- [Charms]
- Sun worship
- Water spirits
- Recent famine lessons
- The study of caste
- The tomb of Akbar
- Copper and bronze
- Trees sacred
- Khasi monuments
- Hill spirits
- Twelve great Indian lingams
- Stones
- Village gods
- Connection of modern tribes with prehistoric A/c
- Tree marriage
- Beating the earth
- Priests, etc., sleeping on the ground
- Sacred earth
- Victims buries
- New Year's Day
- The sleep of the Earth
- Vedic worship of earth
- Tree and jungle spirits
- First fruits
- Dasahra
- Spring feast
- Earth oracular
- Most goddesses modification of one primitive goddess Mother Earth
- Cocoanut day; John B. Seely, September 30, 1910
- Sun enters Capricornus ..., Aries, December 22, 1911
- Sun enters Cancer ..., Libra, June 22-September 24, 1911
- Sceetore
- secretary; R. Temple, June 7, 1900
- [Glossary terms and references]
- Devi
- Maypoles
- Things not allowed to fall on the ground
- Stimulating the powers of Mother Earth by blood
- Posts and pillars
- 'Hee [the Rev. Wm. Leske] whipt the sayd broker ... '
- Blood not allowed to fall on the ground
- Earth stimulated by abuse
- Danger of interfering with Mother Earth
- Manuscript for new edition of Popular religion and folklore of Northern India
- Earth both kindly and malignant
- [Index to MS 125/61]
- Magic
- 'Have sent to give message to men by the moon ... '
- Bronze and copper
- Buddhism
- Sacred marriage
- 'The habit of creeping under a sacred stone ... '
- Death of the God
- Amulet
- [List of references
- fairies, folklore]
- Kinds of grain
- 'Hartly House an Indian novel ... '
- 'A curious petition was delivered to me ... ', 1814
- 'India in particular is conspicuous for the absence of the prehistoric evidence ... '
- 'The worship of the Gonds ... '
- 'The beliefs in respect of stepping over a person ... '
- Cocoanut day at Bombay, July 10, 1909
- 'Bele? Used for working aid ... '.
- Notes:
- Collection no.: MS 125.
- Online resource.
- OCLC:
- 1090104853
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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