. Popular religion and folk-lore of Northern India . pposes thisto depend on the experience of the disease-bearing pro-perties of This belief explains the puzzling incon-sistencies of Hindus of all classes that the house, housedoor, and a little in front is scrupulously clean, while theyard may be a dung-heap or a privy. As long as the houseis clean, the Bhut cannot come in. Let him live in theprivy; he cannot do much harm there. The House Roof. Lastly comes the house roof. We have already seen thatthe Dravidian tribes will not allow their women to touch 1 Wilson, Essays, i. 39. 2 Notes
. Popular religion and folk-lore of Northern India . pposes thisto depend on the experience of the disease-bearing pro-perties of This belief explains the puzzling incon-sistencies of Hindus of all classes that the house, housedoor, and a little in front is scrupulously clean, while theyard may be a dung-heap or a privy. As long as the houseis clean, the Bhut cannot come in. Let him live in theprivy; he cannot do much harm there. The House Roof. Lastly comes the house roof. We have already seen thatthe Dravidian tribes will not allow their women to touch 1 Wilson, Essays, i. 39. 2 Notes, 169. 2Q4 Folk-lore of Northern India. the thatch during a whirlwind. So, most people par-ticularly object to people standing on their roof, and in aspecial degree to a buffalo getting upon it. It is on theroof, too, that the old shoe or black pot or painted tile isalways kept to scare the Bhuts which use it as a perch. END OF VOL. I. LONDON: printed by gilbert and rivington, ld.,st. johns house, clerkenwkll road, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOLIBRARY. Do not remove the card from this Pocket. Acme Library Card Pocket Under Pat. Ref. Index by LIBRARY BUREAU, Boston
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