Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg. OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF SOUTHERN INDIA By EDGAR THURSTON, C.I.E. Sometime superintendent of the Madras Government Museum and of the Ethnographic Survey of the Madras Presidency T. Fisher Unwin London: Adelphi Terrace Leipsic: Inselstrasse 20 1912 PREFACE This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin. In my "Ethnographic Notes in Southern India" (1906), I stated that the confused chapter devoted to omens, animal superstitions, evil eye, charms, sorcery, etc., was a mere outline sketch of a group of s…
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