Cults, customs and superstitions of India. Rev. and enl. ed. With illus. from photographs and from drawings by William Campbell Oman (1908)
Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 · London T.F. Unwin · leaf 287
rmances also more peculiar thanagreeable. One was a weird dance by villagers, the per-formers being for the most part poised on one leg withtheir arms carried in grotesque ways. The leader of theparty had a lace curtain on his head arranged like awomans chaddar, and he evidently fancied himself.… … Q AT THE FAIE 215 Several Muslim faquirs but no Hindu sddhus wereabout. One faquir wearing a most outlandish hat ofcocks feathers sat in solemn state with a small gatheringof respectably-dressed people about him. These, I daresay, were consulting faquir sahib on matters in whichthey were…
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