 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - China - 1882 - 362 pages
...droves of bullocks, are terribly vexed by witchcraft, to which their wandering and precarious existence especially exposes them in the shape of fever, rheumatism,...been strangled by sentence of their secret tribunals. In difficult cases they consult the most eminent of their spiritual advisers or holy men, who may be... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - China - 1882 - 352 pages
...witchcraft, to which their wandering and pre» curious existence especially exposes them in the sliape of fever> rheumatism, and dysentery. Solemn inquiries...been strangled by sentence of their secret tribunals. In difficult cases they consult the most eminent of their spiritual advisers or holy men, who may be... | |
 | William Crooke - Caste - 1896 - 546 pages
...existence especially exposes them in the shape of fever, rheumatism, and dysenteiy. Solemn enquiries are still held in the wild jungles where these people...gipsies, and many an unlucky hag has been strangled by the sentence of their secret tribunals." 8. According to Mr. Cumberlege, "the Charans are all deists.... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - China - 1899 - 360 pages
...existence especially exposes them in the shape of fever, rheumatism, and dysentery. Solemn enquiries are still held in the wild jungles where these people...been strangled by sentence of their secret tribunals. In difficult cases they consult the most eminent of their spiritual advisers or holy men, who may be... | |
 | William Crooke - India - 1906 - 568 pages
...like fever and rheumatism, the natural result of exposure. " Solemn enquiries," writes Sir A. Lyall, " are still held in the wild jungles, where these people...gipsies, and many an unlucky hag has been strangled by the sentence of their secret tribunals." Their own tribal council of elders decides the cases which... | |
 | William Crooke - India - 1906 - 594 pages
...like fever and rheumatism, the natural result of exposure. "Solemn enquiries," writes Sir A. Lyall, "are still held in the wild jungles, where these people...gipsies, and many an unlucky hag has been strangled by the sentence of their secret tribunals." Their own tribal council of elders decides the cases which... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - China - 1907 - 140 pages
...existence especially exposes them in the shape of fever, rheumatism, and dysentery. Solemn enquiries are still held in the wild jungles where these people...been strangled by sentence of their secret tribunals. In difficult cases they consult the most eminent of their spiritual advisers or holy men, who may be... | |
 | L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur) - Caste - 1928 - 786 pages
...dysentery. Solemn inquiries are still held in the wild jungles where these people came out like gypsies, and many an unlucky hag has been strangled by sentence...classes of Bhagats or magicians, one good and the other bad,J who correspond to the European practitioners of black and white magic. The good Bhagat is called... | |
 | William Crooke - Social Science - 1999 - 532 pages
...existence especially exposes them in the shape of fever, rheumatism, and dysenteiy. Solemn enquiries are still held in the wild jungles where these people...gipsies, and many an unlucky hag has been strangled by the sentence of their secret tribunals." 8. According to Mr. Cumberlege, " the Charans are all deists.... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1910 - 738 pages
...writes about the curious ways of these tribunals. "Solemn enquiries" says he "are still held in thetwild jungles, where these people camp out like Gipsies, and many an unlucky hag has been strangled by the sentence of their secret tribunals". It is said that their own tribal council of elders decides... | |
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Solemn enquiries are still held in the wild jungles where these people camp out like gipsies, and many an unlucky hag has been strangled by sentence of their secret tribunals. 