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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MAY, 1899.
“On the proposal of a churchman and a wife will present her husband with a child ;
lawyer it was agreed that he should be set and if the left eye-brow beats, it signifies that to empty a dark tarn on desolate moore, the person is to acquire wealth. When both throb, known as Dosmery (or Dozmare) Pool, it signifies that overwhelming sorrow is to over
using a limpet-shell with a hole in it take a person. Driven thence by a terrific storm, Trego
Pupils.--If the pupil of the right eye dilates, it eagle, hotly pursued by demons, sought sanctuary in the chapel of Roach Rock,
means great loss to a person, and if the left, it From Roach he was removed by powerful
warns one to keep aloof from fears and difficulties. spell to the sandy shores of the Padstow
If both the eye pupils are dilated, it iudicates district, there to make trusses of sand and
loss of health. ropes of sand with which to bind them." Corners of the Eye.- If the corner of the right Again we find him tasked
I eye throbs, it means that a man's foes and friends
love him. If the corner of the left eye beats, it "to make and carry away a truss of sand
means the recovery of lost property. bound with a rope of sand from Gwenvor (the cove at Whitsand Bay) near the Land's Eye-lashes. - The throbbing of the right and End."
left eye-lashes means that the person is likely to The Cornish pool which Tregeagle had to
get into a broil with others. empty with a perforated sbell is said to be the Eye-lids. - The beating of the right eye-lid scene of a tradition of making bundles and indicates that the person is to witness a marriage bands of sand:
ceremony soon. And if the left, bat foar will "A tradition....says that on the overtake him and make him ill. shores of this lonely mere (Dosmery pool) Whole Eye.- When the whole right eye beats, the ghosts of bad men are ever employed it means that the patient will recover from long in binding the sand in bundles with beams!
illness. And if the whole left eye, it brings a (bands) of the same. These ghosts, or
good name. some of them, were driven out (they say horsewhipped out) by the parson from A person whose death takes place on a Launceston."
Saturday, should never go alone. To avert evil I place these roughly gathered facts together
consequences, a live fowl is taken with such a
corpse to the cemetery and it is there interred in the hope of gaining further instances; espe
with it. Brahmans, averse to bloody sacrifices, cially instances of,
Bubetitute for a fowl the steel bolt of a door.. (1) Ritual use of ropes, or of perforated
If a person dies under the influence of an water-Tessels.
evil star, the seeds of leguminous planta are (2) Futile rope making in custom or story.
scattered along the route of the funeral proces. (3) Futile water-carrying in custom or story. sion. It is believed that such a body, when (4) Asses in connexion with any of the above buried, turns into a devil, and comes home to
acts; and in connexion with (a) water hold sway as a nocturnal monarch over the house. in any form, (b) death and the under If the above custom is observed, however, it will world.
try and pick up the seeds on its way from the G. M.' GODDEN, F.A.I.
grave to the house, dropping them on its return at day. break. In this way every night it starts,
but never reaches its destination, since the seeds SUPERSTITIONS AMONG HINDUS IN THE prevent ita arrival in time. CONTRAL PROVINCES.
An Hindus believe that by keeping quills The throbbing of different parts of the eye or spines of porcupine at home they will meet portende different thinge:
with vain quarrels with Deighbours and kineEye-brows. When the right eye-brow of a men. persox beats very forcibly, it indicates that the
M. R. Pedlow.
+ Taken from Hunt, Popular Romances of the West of England, 3rd Ed. Pp. 131 .
• Courtney, Cornish Feasta and Folklore, p. 73.
. Courtney, Cornish Feasts and Folklore, p. 73; | quoting Notes and Queries, Dec. 1850.
