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A detailed ethnographic survey of popular superstitions and ritual practices in southern India, drawing on fieldwork and documentary sources. It examines omens and the reading of bodily signs and animal behaviors; animal and snake worship; the evil eye, charms, yantrams, vows, and votive offerings; magic, divination, and fortune-telling; human and animal sacrifice; and agricultural and rain-making rites. Material is organized thematically and illustrated with photographs and plates, with attention to ritual specialists, local procedures for seeking signs, and everyday functions of belief.

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N.A. Oastes Castes
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61 Lakshi Lakshmi
69 fews few
69, 248 [Not in source] ,
69 sacrified sacrificed
70 cointing counting
112, 143 [Not in source]
124, 125 ghee ghī
128 Nambutri’s Nambūdri’s
133 instal install
139 Gazetter Gazetteer
140 diety deity
141 propitate propitiate
172, 264 , .
187 women woman
226 kicks kick
239 dhatura datura
242 [Not in source] .
248 similiar similar
294 Gundest Gundert
296 Uchāra Uchāral
314 . ,
320 sarced sacred