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Rustom Pestonji Masani

Folklore of Wells: Being a Study of Water-Worship in East and West

Published by Good Press, 2021

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EAN 4066338075581

Table of Contents

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

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1. Floating of lamps during the Kartik Bath. 2. Parsis on the sea-beach in Bombay. 3. Offerings to the Gunbow Well. 4. Ganga Mâi. 5. Marjan Vidhi: Washing away of sins with the changing of the sacred thread. 6. Ocean-worship. 7. Narali Purnima.

INTRODUCTION.

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For literary conceits and dreams of authorship there is no more powerful antidote than the tedium of official life. It radically cures all such morbid propensities. This little book, however, owes its inspiration to office routine. It was in connection with official business that my interest in the subject of water-worship was awakened about six years ago when in my capacity as Municipal Secretary of Bombay I received several protests against requisitions for the closing of wells.

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