28.12.2011

INDIA LEGENDS FLOKLORE ART AND CULTURE: SUPERSTITIONS OF THE SANTALS in JOURNAL OF THE BIHAR ORISSA RESEARCH SOC DEC 1915

 

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SUPERSTITIONS OF THE SANTALS

in

JOURNAL OF THE BIHAR ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIETY

by

A CAMPBELL

DECEMBER 1915


If sand is eaten in food they say there will be a good harvest.

A young woman will not put a lotus flower in her hair. If she does she will make a run-away marriage.

If a branch of the soso tree (Semicarpus anacardium) is fixed in a field of cotton it will be preserved from the evil eye.

A pregnant woman will not make bread, if she do so her child's ears will be wrinkled and the oil in which the bread is
being fried will all evaporate.

They do not point with the finger at a rainbow, lest the finger should become maimed or curved.

 

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If sand is eaten in food they say there will be a good harvest.

A young woman will not put a lotus flower in her hair. If she does she will make a run-away marriage.

If a branch of the soso tree (Semicarpus anacardium) is fixed in a field of cotton it will be preserved from the evil eye.

A pregnant woman will not make bread, if she do so her child's ears will be wrinkled and the oil in which the bread is
being fried will all evaporate.

They do not point with the finger at a rainbow, lest the finger should become maimed or curved.

Beef is never cooked inside a house, to do so would be an insult to the bongas.

Goat's milk is not given to children  as it makes them quarrelsome.

If a raven croaks near a house it means a death.
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