 | Valentine Ball - Bengal (India) - 1880 - 786 pages
...could neither eat nor drink. One of the chief distinctions between them appeared to be that the Keriahs do not eat the flesh of sheep, and may not even use...remember to have seen it stated of any other race. In other respects the Keriahs are not over-fastidious feeders. Both races eat cattle that have been killed... | |
 | William Crooke - Ancestor worship - 1894 - 442 pages
...sacred and used the dung of these animals instead of cowdung to plaster their floors. So the Keriyas do not eat the flesh of sheep and may not even use a woollen rug.0 One of the best illustrations of this form of totemism is the * Devak or guardian gods of Berar... | |
 | William Crooke - Ancestor worship - 1896 - 404 pages
...sacred, and used the dung of these animals instead of cowdung to plaster their floors. So the Kariyas do not eat the flesh of sheep, and may not even use a woollen rug. The same prohibition of meats appears to be a survival of totemism in Arabia.5 THE DEVAK. One of the... | |
 | Folklore - 1891 - 674 pages
...aborigines— Totemism. — The chief distinction between the Keriyas and Paháriyas is that the Keriyas do not eat the flesh of sheep, and may not even use a woollen rug. — (Ball : Jungle Life in India, p. 89). (This is evidently totemistic, and it would be very interesting... | |
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Kheriahs do not eat the flesh of sheep, and may not even use a woollen rug. It would be exceedingly interesting, if this custom could be traced to its origin ; I do not remember to have seen it stated of any other race. 