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FOLKLORE OF WELLS
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Floating of lamps during the Kartik Bath.
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FOLKLORE OF WELLS
BEING A STUDY OF
WATER-WORSHIP
IN EAST AND WEST
BY
R. P. MASANI, M.A.
BOMBAY:
D. B. TARAPOREVALA SONS & Co.
1918
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Printed by B. Miller, Superintendent, British India Press, Bombay.
Published by D. B. Taraporevala Sons & Co.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
IntroductionPages xvii to xxvi.
PART I.
FOLKLORE OF BOMBAY WELLS.
CHAPTER I.
SANCTITY OF WATER.
Origin of fevers—Wrath of Shiva—Story of Ekānterio,        the malaria fiend—Closing of wells—Protests based        on religious sentiments and supernatural beliefs—Scriptural        injunctions for the use of well water—Opinions        of Parsi scholars—Some Hindu beliefs and        usages—Ceremonies requiring water drawn from        seven wells—Lighting of lamps in the niches in        wells—The unwashed sect of the Jains—Aversion        to bathing—The days of the Drymais1-8
CHAPTER II.
WATER SAINTS.
Spirits dwelling in wells—Disasters brought on by pent-up        spirits—The fortunes of the Edwardes Theatre—Mysterious        collapse of barriers—The sacred well of        Alice Building—Propitiated well-spirits avert        accidents—Story of two sisters—Oracular well of        Ghoga Street—Midnight and midday visits to        wells—Ceremony of divination at St. Oswall’s well9-13
[vi]CHAPTER III.
PENALTY FOR DEFILEMENT.
The labourer who spat on the pavement of an oracular        well—Fate of an European girl who offended the        saintly spirit of Loveji Castle—Acts of defilement,        whether conscious or unconscious, offend the        spirits—The Nowroji Wadia house tragedy—A        Damascus custom—Destruction of the land of        Logres—Concerts of the nymphs—“The pure        one” fountain of Egypt—An Esthonian belief—A        curious variant of the belief concerning defilement—Deliberate        pollution of wells so as to constrain        the rain-god—Albiruni’s interrogatories—Doctrine        of negation of knowledge14-17
CHAPTER IV.
QUAINT PARSI BELIEFS.
Worship of cabined spirits on full moon eve—Goat-sacrifice        on marriage days—Practice of besmearing the        forehead with the blood of the victim—Non-Aryan        cults imbibed by the Aryans—Hindu and Parsi                        
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