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FOLK-LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA
YAMA, GOD OF DEATH, BORNE BY HIS MESSENGERS.
THE POPULAR RELIGION AND FOLK-LORE OF NORTHERN INDIA
BY
W. CROOKE, B.A.
BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE
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
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
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class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Bibliography 327
Index 333