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35690	Thurston, Edgar	Omens and Superstitions of Southern India			.txt	text/plain	96613	4905	76	object on the morning of New Year's Day, as the effects of omens If, when a person is leaving his house, the head or feet strike boiled in milk is offered to propitiate the Sun God. Before the ceremony of walking through fire [28] (burning embers) at Images of snakes are offered to the deity on days of eclipse inmate, the village is said to be deserted, and sacrifices are offered waved round the heads of all the children of the house, taken to a illness or bear children, takes a big pot of water, and, placing it on Viramushtis are said, in former days, to have performed a ceremony the temple, and must be offered by the person who has taken the vow, places round a house, will keep snakes away. A new pot, full of water, is placed in the milk-house, ceremony, "offerings are made at the temples, and, on the day of the	./cache/35690.txt	./txt/35690.txt