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

Author: William Crooke

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Language: English

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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
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

Index      333