Author: William Crooke
Publisher: LP Publications
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 420
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175363126
Description
This is the first attempt to bring together some of the information available on the popular beliefs of the races of Northern India.
This book has been threefold. In the first place, to collect, for the use of all officers whose work lies among the rural classes, some information on the beliefs of the people which will enable them, in some degree, to understand the mysterious inner life of the races among whom their lot is cast; secondly, it may be hoped that this introductory sketch will stimulate enquiry, particularly among the educated natives of the country, who have as yet done little to enable Europeans to gain a fuller and more sympathetic knowledge of their rural brethren.
It has been written in the intervals of the scanty leisure of a District Officer’s life in India, and often at a distance from works of reference and libraries.
Contents
CHAPTER I
The Godlings of Nature
CHAPTER II
The Heroic and Village Godlings
CHAPTER III
The Godlings of Disease
CHAPTER IV
The Worship of the Sainted Dead
CHAPTER V
The Worship of the Malevolent Dead
CHAPTER VI
The Evil Eye and the Scaring of Ghosts
CHAPTER VII
Tree and Serpent Worship
CHAPTER VIII
Totemism and Fetishism
CHAPTER IX
Animal Worship
CHAPTER X
The Black Art
CHAPTER XI
Some Rural Festivals and Ceremonies
Bibliography
Index