THE POPULAR RELIGION AND FOLK-LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA BY W. CROOKE, B.A. BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE 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 FOLK-LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA. CHAPTER I. THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS. Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos. Virgil, Eclogues, iii. 103. Asma 'bint 'Umais relates that she said, "…
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