Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

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This book has emerged from author’s seven volume of Encyclopedic Caste and Tribes of South India, 1909. It deals with omens, animal superstitions, evil eye, charms, sorcery etc of the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the states of Travancore and Cochin. The author supplemented the personal knowledge acquired in the course of the wandering expedition in the region and by recourse to official reports, gazetteers, journals of societies, books etc.

We found this book profoundly interesting and educative. Hence this book is a rare asset in every home and library.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edgar Thurston

Edgar Thurston was a Retired Superintended of Madras Government Museum in India. He was also a Superintendent of Ethnography, Madras and Correspondent Etranger, Societe Danthropologie De Paris.

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Title
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9789381709566
Length
262p., Illustrations; 22cm.
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