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Northern India
Historical folklore and popular-religion collections from Northern India, with regional language, community, and colonial collection contexts made explicit.
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Texts
The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. I — William CrookeVolume I of William Crooke’s The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India (new edition, 1896), a Bengal civil servant’s survey of village religion in Upper India: the godlings of nature, heroic and village godlings, the godlings of disease, the worship of saints and the deified dead, and the lore of ghosts and demons, with both prefaces and all the chapter notes.The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. II — William CrookeVolume II of William Crooke’s The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India (new edition, 1896), a Bengal civil servant’s survey of village religion in Upper India: the Evil Eye and the scaring of ghosts, tree and serpent worship, totemism and fetishism, animal-worship, witchcraft, and rural festivals, with the bibliography and the index to both volumes.