Draws on a study of religious cults and folklore to provide an introducition to the ancient magic and folklore of India. It demonstrates that there are many parallels between Indian and European folklore. Reprint of classic, illustrated.
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Margaret Stutley is a private scholar who, with her husband James, retired over twenty years ago to North Wales. A Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, she became interested in Buddhism and Hinduism in her teens and has since, with her husband, formed a library of Indological works, including most of the important works of modern scholarship upon which Ancient Indian Magic and Folklore and A Dictionary of Hinduism are based.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The main source of this book is the 'Atharvaveda', compiled about 1400 BC and containing much earlier lore, some of it originating in Sumeria, Babylonia, Iran and Ancient Egypt. Contains much on magical charms, talismans and amulets, and demonic possession. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1980. illus xiii + 190pp hb dw clipped, pages browned, vg. Seller Inventory # 001293
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