 | DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON - 1883 - 908 pages
...expected to abate. Another mode of divination is practised thus. The sydna will wave wheat or jawar over the patient's body, by preference on Saturday...mischief, and the deity on whose heap the last grain comes is the one to be appeased. The waving the grain or tobacco over the patient's body is called... | |
 | sir Denzil Charles J. Ibbetson, Sir Denzil Ibbetson - Karnāl (India : District) - 1883 - 510 pages
...expected to abate. Another mode of divination is practised thus. The sj-iina will wave wheat orjati'ar over ""the patient's body, by preference on Saturday...mischief, and the deity on whose heap the last grain comes is the one to be appeased. The waving the grain or tobacco over the patient's body is called... | |
 | Folklore - 1891 - 674 pages
...toábate. Another mode of divination is practised thus : the sydna will wave wheat or joár millet over the patient's body, by preference on Saturday...mischief, and the deity on whose heap the last grain comes is the one to be appeased. The waving of grain or tobacco over the patient's head is called chuána,... | |
 | Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley - Folklore - 1900 - 292 pages
...waves wheat over the patient's body ; (Saturday or Sunday are the days preferred for these ceremonies) he then counts out the grains one by one into heaps,...is the one to be propitiated. The malignant spirit has to be appeased by building for him a new shrine, or by making offerings at the old one. Very often... | |
 | George Weston Briggs - Chamār (South Asian people) - 1920 - 290 pages
...counts the grains one by one and places them in heaps, and names a godling for each heap. The demon into whose heap the last grain falls is the one to be propitiated. used to tie the front feet of an ass, or water in which a woman's napkin has been washed, is given... | |
 | Harjot Oberoi - Religion - 1994 - 516 pages
...is to be propitiated, and the time when the disease may be expected to abate. Or the diviner waves wheat over the patient's body, by preference on Saturday...and the deity on whose heap the last grain falls is to be propitiated. The malignant spirit is appeased by building him a new shrine, or by making offerings... | |
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... over the patient's body, by preference on Saturday or Sunday ; he then counts out the grains one by one into heaps, one heap for each god who is likely to be at the bottom of the mischief, and the deity on whose heap the last grain falls is the one... 