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	Folklore Of Bombay by R E Enthoven
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A volume full of curious customs and manners of the people who comprised of the Presidency of Bombay (which included parts of the Deccan, Konkan and Gujarat). The book is full with the various observances that constituted the rites of the people who resided there. Divided into 12 chapters and an appendix, each chapter takes up a subject and treates it separately. The chapters cover 1&2) worship of natural objects 3) snake and tree worship 4) worship of Ancestors, Holy men and saints 5) Sprit possession and scaring 6) Totemism and animal worship 7) Evil eye, witchcraft and magic 8) Dreams and Omens 9) Disease deities and cures 10) women`s rites 11) Village, field and other rites, and the final chapter is on miscellaneous observances. The book was first published in 1924. ISBN :8120606280

Pages : 354