Some Western Ontario Folk Beliefs and Practices

The on-going adherence of the Afro-Surinamese and of new British Indian and Javanese migrants to their own folk beliefs and practices necessitated a response from Dutch colonial medicine. If modern leprosy politics were to succeed, some degree of cooperation and compliance from the population was necessary. Folk beliefs were not seen as a possible alternative to Western science and medicine on a conceptual level; however, Dutch colonial medicine found elements in folk beliefs useful for its own health propaganda and communication, while at the same time emphatically rejecting the folk medicine practitioners’ worldview underlying these beliefs. In this sense Dutch colonial medicine did not limit itself to the interventions from above based on biomedical knowledge that historians have found typical of ‘Imperial Tropical Medicine’, but actively sought the compliance of the population.

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Una leggenda in laki da Darb-e Gonbad (Lorestān, Iran)

Annali Sezione Orientale ◽

10.1163/24685631-12340094 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 80 (1-2) ◽

pp. 80-109

Author(s):

Sara Belelli

Keyword(s):

Folk Beliefs ◽

Beliefs And Practices ◽

Rural Village ◽

Interesting Insight ◽

Nomadic People ◽

Insight Into

Abstract Laki is a Northwest Iranian language spoken by both settled and nomadic people in the area of west Iran unofficially known as Lakestān, wedged between the Kurdish and Lori ethno-linguistic continua. This paper presents a popular legend in the Kākāvandi variety of Laki, giving an interesting insight into folk beliefs and practices related to the emāmzāde of Šāhzāde Moḥammad, a shrine located in the rural village of Darb-e Gonbad (Northern Lorestān). The text is accompanied by concise dialectological and lexical notes.

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Biodiversity in Folk-Beliefs and Practices Among the Tribals of Rajasthan

Journal of Human Ecology ◽

10.1080/09709274.2001.11907594 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 141-146

Author(s):

Yogesh Shrivastava ◽

Prabhakar Joshi

Keyword(s):

Folk Beliefs ◽

Beliefs And Practices

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Fortune Telling Rituals Using Incense in Modern Chinese Religious Practices

Vestnik NSU Series History and Philology ◽

10.25205/1818-7919-2020-19-4-25-50 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 25-50

Author(s):

Elena E. Voytishek ◽

Song Yao ◽

Alexandra V. Gorshkova

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Research Field ◽

Religious Practices ◽

Folk Beliefs ◽

Beliefs And Practices ◽

Religious Rituals ◽

First Time ◽

The Universe ◽

Written Sources ◽

Fortune Telling

Based on Chinese written sources and the authors' research field materials, the paper analyzes features of Taoist Buddhist practices using incense, as well as the purport of the 24 combinations that arise during fortune telling using three incense sticks – a practice used in rituals dating back to the early Middle Ages which still occupies a prominent place among China's religious practices today. The techniques that are concurrently characteristic of Buddhist practices, Taoist services as well as traditional folk beliefs hold a prominent place during the ritual. General terminology is primarily used in the comments supplementing the rituals in the original sources. These religious rituals involve ancient representations of Heaven as a “source of moral definitions” which reacts to human deeds through various signs, the teachings of the all-encompassing Qi as the energy of the universe and its numerological embodiment, worldview ideas including ancient Taoist beliefs and practices related to the cult of ancestors as well as worship of Heaven and various spirits, and basic Buddhist postulates of rebirth, karma and retribution for committed acts. Conducting fortune telling rituals using incense naturally embodied folk beliefs, which was instrumental in the ongoing teachings of morality to many generations across almost two millennia. Tables and comments on the 24 fortune telling combinations are published in Russian for the first time.

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Investigations on Veterinary Folklore in the Lower Euphrates Basin; Folk Beliefs and Practices Applied on Animals

Kocatepe Veterinary Journal ◽

10.30607/kvj.841573 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Erhan YÜKSEL ◽

Rahşan ÖZEN

Keyword(s):

Folk Beliefs ◽

Beliefs And Practices

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Folk Beliefs and Practices of Bagong (Amorphophallus sp.) Farmers in San Roque, Northern Samar

Annals of Tropical Research ◽

10.32945/atr4115.2019 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 45-62

Author(s):

Rhodora Abalajen-Bande ◽

Michael Carlo Villas

Keyword(s):

Cultural Policy ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Cultural Education ◽

Folk Beliefs ◽

Beliefs And Practices ◽

Root Crop

This study investigated the folk beliefs and practices of bagong farmers of San Roque, a coastal town 29 kilometers from Catarman, the capital town of Northern Samar. Going by Spanish sources, initial readings suggest that bagong, a root crop of genus Amorphophallus, has long been cultivated in Samar (Alcina 1668/2005). Unlike in other parts of the country where the plant is primarily utilized for pig feeding, the bagong in San Roque is served during special occasions like Christmas and New Year. These occasions are preceded by folk practices unique to the community. This study documents bagong farming and analyzes folk practices, with their attendant narratives and beliefs. Ethnographic observations and interviews were conducted among farmers and townsfolk. Results of the study will have implications on cultural education and cultural policy formulation.

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