Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—Konkan

Name: Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—Konkan
Author: Jackson, A. M. T. (Arthur Mason Tippetts)

Jackson, A. M. T. (Arthur Mason Tippetts)

Folklore -- India

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                            FOLK LORE NOTES.

                            Vol. II--KONKAN.

                  COMPILED FROM MATERIALS COLLECTED BY
            The late A. M. T. JACKSON, Indian Civil Service.

                     R. E. ENTHOVEN, C.I.E., I.C.S.

                  BRITISH INDIA PRESS, MAZGAON BOMBAY.
                                  1915

                 REPRINTED FROM THE "INDIAN ANTIQUARY"

       BY B. MILLER, SUPERINTENDENT, BRITISH INDIA PRESS, BOMBAY

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Nature Powers.
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    Worship of minor local deities. Sun-worship. The Swastika.
    Circumambulation round images and other sacred objects.
    Moon-worship. Days of special importance. Eclipses. Worship
    of planets and stars. The milky way. The rainbow. Worship
    of the earth. Thunder and lightning. Earthquakes. Worship
    of sacred rivers, springs and pools. Water spirits and
    goblins. Ceremonies at digging of wells. Well water as a
    cure for disease. Sacred Lakes. Palaces under the water.
    Sacred mountains. Deities who control the weather. Methods
    of causing or averting rain and of checking storms. Vratas
    or religious vows practised only by women. Rites in which
    women are excluded. Rites in which the worshipper must be
    nude. Superstitions in connection with aerolites and meteors      1

CHAPTER II.

The Heroic Godlings.

    Village deities. Local deities. Installation of deities in
    new settlements. Ghostly godlings. Deities responsible for
    crops and cattle                                                 21

CHAPTER III.

Disease Deities.

    Causes of epidemic diseases and the remedies adopted to
    stop them. Cattle diseases. Remedies practised by the
    village people in connection with them. The methods for
    the exorcism of disease. Methods of expelling evil spirits
    from the body. The village sorcerer. Offerings of rags,
    coins, etc., at sacred trees and wells. The transferring
    of disease from one person to another. Scapegoats                29

CHAPTER IV.

The worship of Ancestors and Saints.

    Shráddhas and other ceremonies performed for the
    propitiation and emancipation of the deceased. Worship
    of the founders of religious sects, of saints, etc.
    Ghosts. Rebirth of ancestors in the same family.
    Miracle-working tombs. Muhammadan saints whose worship
    has been adopted by Hindus. Rural methods for the cure
    of barrenness                                                    40

CHAPTER V.

The Worship of the malevolent dead.

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