id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 43682 Crooke, William The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2) .txt text/plain 119559 7324 80 superstitions of the people of India, and at the present day it forms First comes the custom of placing the dying man on the ground at the a resting-place for the spirit of the dead man, so that it may no The fly here represents the spirit, an idea very common in folk-lore, High-caste Hindu women worship the Pîpal tree in the form of Vasudeva The Nîm tree is also connected with snake worship, as its leaves New Year's Day it is considered essential for every Hindu to worship The number of these trees and plants which scare evil spirits or are Snake-worship appears constantly in history and legend. In the folk-tales, Naravâhanadatta worships snakes in a grove sacred to said, keeps down the ghost of the dead man, and is often a place in Another idea appearing in tiger-worship is that he eats human flesh, In modern times dog-worship appears specially in connection with the ./cache/43682.txt ./txt/43682.txt