Southern Omens

Chapters include: Omens; Animal Superstitions; The Evil Eye; Snake Worship; Vows, Votive and other Offerings; Charms; Human Sacrifice; Magic and Human Life; Magic and Magicians; Divination and Fortune-Telling; Some Agricultural Ceremonies; and, Rain-Making Ceremonies.

This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin. Edgar Thurston CIE (1855-1935) was a superintendent at the Madras Government Museum who contributed to studies in the zoology, ethnology and botany of India and published works related to his work at the museum. Thurston was educated in medicine and lectured in anatomy at the Madras Medical College while also holding his position at the museum. His early works were on numismatics and geology and this was followed later by his researches in anthropology and ethnography.

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston.

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The special work to which I had been appointed at Fair View was the school work; although my instructions given by Superintendent Roberts on the eve of my departure for Africa gave full liberty to evangelize as well as to teach. My manual read something like this: "Do not be satisfied to be merely a school teacher. Be an evangelist. Go out to the kraals, preaching as you go. Make the salvation of souls your one and only business." -from "Chapter XIII: My School" The missionary work of Westerners in Africa is long and storied-here's another tale of the long-term attempts to convert a continent. Privately published, this is one woman's account of her Christian work in Zulu country, from her childhood-she was born in 1863-on farms in Iowa and Kansas, where she had a youthful brush with death that led to her conversion to an active Christianity, to her return home after long years doing the Lord's work. The time in between is fraught with culture shock: her difficulties in learning the Zulu language, her disdain for Zulu tradition and mythology, even a particular scorn for the food she found unpalatable. Stolid and unbending, this is a curious document of a less enlightened time, a firsthand look at the mindset of a bygone time.

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Books by VED from VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS 01. Software codes of mantra, tantra, witchcraft, black magic, evil eye, evil tongue &c. 02. MARCH of the EVIL EMPIRES; ENGLISH versus the FEUDAL LANGUAGES 03. The SHROUDED SATANISM in FEUDAL LANGUAGES! Tribulations and intractability of improving others!! 04. Codes of reality! What is language? 05. Software codes of Reality, Life and Languages! 06. A different perspective on International Relationship 07. The machinery of Homoeopathy 08. Gandhi and his ‘Ji’; Grooming up of a fake 09. Vintage English 10. ENTERING the WORLD of ANIMALS 11. Indian Culture! What is it exactly? 12. INDIAN MARRIED LIFE: The undercurrents! 13. An urgent appeal for ENGLISH RACISM 14. Idiocy of the Indian Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act! 15. VED’s ONLINE WRITINGS 2004 to 2007 16. Feudal languages! What are they? 17. Horrendous India! A parade of facade in verbal codes! 18. The tragic consequences of teaching Hindi in Australia! 19. An impressionistic history of the South Asian subcontinent 20. VEILED routes to resources in Computers & on the Internet, unVEILED! 21. British sailors in Indian stinking jails! 22. What is different about pristine ENGLISH? 23. Compulsory Formal Education: A travesty 24. Prospects for research studies on language codes English & Vernacular mix 1. Old Malayalam Film Songs’ Annotations in English 2. Dangers of making Malayalam the language of administration in Kerala 3. Writ Petition against Compulsory Malayalam Study: An argument against teaching feudal languages മലയാളം നിർബന്ധിച്ച് പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിന് എതിരെ ഒരു റിറ്റ് ഹരജി: ഫ്യൂഡൽ ഭാഷകൾ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിന് എതിരെയുള്ള ഒരു വാദഗതി 4. Words from Malabar Language 5. FENCE EATING the CROPS! A treatise on the bureaucratic loot & swindle of India. 6. ദക്ഷിണേഷ്യൻ ഉപഭൂഖണ്ഡ ചിരിത്രത്തെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഒരു അനുഭാവ്യചിത്രീകരണം 7. Why can’t you speak English? നിങ്ങൾക്ക് എന്ത്കൊണ്ട് ഇങ്ഗ്ളിഷ് സംസാരിച്ചുകൂടാ? (മലയാളം സംസാരിക്കുന്നവർക്കായുള്ള ഇങ്ഗ്ളിഷ് പഠന പദ്ധതി) 8. An English-Malayalam Dictionary by Tobias Zacharias 9. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (along with Malayalam Translation) Commentaries attached to famous books 01. NATIVE LIFE IN TRAVANCORE by REV. Samuel Mateer 02. TRAVANCORE STATE MANUAL by V Nagam Aiya 03. Castes & Tribes of Southern India - Volume 1 by Edgar Thurston 04. Malabar (Manual) by William Logan 05. OSCAR WILDE and MYSELF by Lord Alfred Douglas 06. THE NATIVE RACES OF SOUTH AFRICA by GEORGE W. STOW 07. MEIN KAMPF by Adolf Hitler - A demystification! Other books published by VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS 1. Omens and superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston 2. English Self-learning book - English learning book 3. Kama Sutra by Vatsyayan 4. Holy Bible King James Version 5. Notes, Splices and Rope Work by A. HYATT VERRILL 6. Minutes on Indian Education by Thomas Babington Macaulay 7. MANUSCRIPTS, ANNOTATIONS and LETTERS - Oscar Wilde 8. THE MAHABHARATHA by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 9. MULTIPLICATION TABLES 1 - 2 10. Slavery in the South-Asian Subcontinent 11. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Of The English Language 12. DE PROFUNDIS by Oscar Wilde 13. AMUSEMENTS IN MATHEMATICS by HENRY ERNEST DUDENEY 14. The Captivity, Sufferings and Escape of James Scurry 15. THE STORY OF CAWNPORE by CAPT. MOWBRAY THOMSON

🌾 FEUDAL LANGUAGES Introduction 3-D Virtual Arena Languages and 2-D Virtual Arena Languages The language machinery Codes of Reality Standard Satanic features of Feudal Languages Illustrations Another illustrative item Writings on Feudal Languages Significance of this information for native-English nations Domestic Violence Professions and entrepreneurship Homicidal Mania Gun Violence in the US and other native-English nations Illustrative case in point: Adam W. Purinton Avoid Indian languages in public places Technological disasters Mental stature oscillation and its connection to human mental imbalance Women Immigrants to native-English nations