Reise durch Kambodja nach Cochinchina, Volume 4Costenoble, 1868 - 436 pages |
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Page 20 - The Mantra of Johore, even in the face of their Christian teaching, believe that a tiger in their paths is invariably a human being who, having sold himself to the Evil Spirit, assumes by sorcery the shape of the beast to execute his vengeance or malignity. They assert that invariably before a tiger is met, a man has been or might have been seen to disappear in the direction from which the animal springs.
Page 321 - Within the womb, I have recognised all the successive births of these deities. A hundred bodies, like iron chains, hold me down: yet, like a falcon, I swiftly rise.
Page 286 - Yes, I will leave her for ever" but, more generally, she at first refuses; when this happens, the Capua grasps in his right hand a good stout cane, and beats her most mercilessly, repeating at the same time his question and threats. At last, after many blows have been inflicted, the woman replies "Yes, I will leave her this instant"; she then ceases to tremble and shake, and soon recovers her reason, if indeed she had ever lost it.
Page 182 - The true dragon, it is affirmed, never renders itself visible to mortal vision wholly at once. If its head is seen, its tail is obscured or hidden. If it exposes its tail to the eyes of man, it is careful to keep its head out of sight. It is always accompanied by or enshrouded in, clouds, when it becomes visible in any of its parts.
Page 321 - This second self becomes his representative for holy acts of religion ; and that other self, having fulfilled its obligations and completed its period of life, deceases. Departing hence, he is born again in some other shape ; and such is his third birth. This was declared by the holy sage : ' Within the womb I have recognised all the successive births of these deities. A hundred bodies like iron chains hold me down ; yet like a falcon I swiftly rise.
Page 20 - Jacoons believe that a tiger in their path is invariably a human enemy who assumes by sorcery the shape of the beast to execute his vengeance or malignity. They assert that, invariably before a tiger is met, a man has been seen or might have been seen to disappear in the direction from which the animal springs.
Page 176 - Meer, Ebenen und Gebirge aus, indem sie ihren Bedürfnissen sicher nachgingen. Dagegen hatten sie vordem, so lange ihrer...
Page 392 - Sacee), under four principal divisions, of which the names, both Sanscrit and Tibetan, are on record.* In Mr. Wilson's Chronological Table of the history of Kashmir (As. Res. xv. p. 81.), we find...
Page 188 - ... belt which girdled his waist. When he reached the top of the tree he sang, and beat the tune with his arrow upon his bow, and as he sang the tree grew and kept pace with the water for a long time. At length he abandoned the idea of remaining any longer on the tree...
Page 334 - ... called Jatis. They have no belief in incarnations or Avatars of the Deity, but they admit the transmigration of the soul into different bodies; they deny several other dogmas of the Hindus; in their opinion nothing is more detestable than the doctrine of the Brahmans, and when a misfortune befalls any one of them, they say : " Hast thou perchance done some good to a Brahman, or drunk some water of the bone devourer...