item: #1 of 10 id: 33233 author: Sherman, Harold M. (Harold Morrow) title: Tahara Among African Tribes date: None words: 38938 flesch: 92 summary: Say Dick are you positive that there'll always be plenty of eats? he asked. Dick Oakwood, blue eyed and smiling and resembling a blond savage in his garb of soft zebra skin, glanced down at his chief warrior who prostrated himself at the feet of the boy king. keywords: arabs; black; boy; carter; cimbula; dan; dick; dick oakwood; eyes; good; gorols; horses; jungle; king; kulki; mahatma; man; master; men; oakwood; raal; ray; saw; tahara; taharans; time; tribe; warriors; way cache: 33233.txt plain text: 33233.txt item: #2 of 10 id: 39868 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Glinda of Oz In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril by the Sorcery of Glinda the Good date: None words: 40852 flesch: 84 summary: Before all the concourse of people Princess Ozma made a speech from a porch of the palace and demanded that they recognize her as their lawful Ruler and promise to obey the laws of the Land of Oz. The eyes, as she calmly examined Ozma and Dorothy, had a suspicious and unfriendly look in them, but she said quietly: I know who you are, for I have consulted my Magic Oracle, which told me that one calls herself Princess Ozma, the Ruler of all the Land of Oz, and the other is Princess Dorothy of Oz, who came from a country called Kansas. keywords: adepts; boat; coo; dic; dome; dorothy; ervic; fishes; flatheads; glinda; island; lake; magic; ozma; people; queen; skeezers; sorceress; water; way; wizard cache: 39868.txt plain text: 39868.txt item: #3 of 10 id: 42991 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 date: None words: 136249 flesch: 73 summary: | 162.5 | 175 | 149.6 | 81.9 | 95.7 | 68.1 ========================================================= By the dolichocephalic type of cranium which has persisted, and which the Chenchus possess in common with various other jungle tribes, they are still, as shown by the following table, at once differentiated from the mesaticephalic dwellers in the plains near the foot of the Nallamalais:-- ================================================ | | Number of | Cephalic| times the | Index. The following are the results of measurements of Kanikars in the jungle, and at a village some miles from Trivandrum, the capital of Travancore:-- =========================================================== | Stature cm. keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; account; ancestors; badagas; bants; barber; betel; body; boy; boyas; brahmans; bridegroom; burning; canara; car; caste; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; children; class; classes; close; cloth; community; connection; corpse; country; couple; day; days; dead; death; deceased; district; division; dravidian; exogamous; f =; fact; families; family; father; feet; female; festival; fire; flowers; following; food; form; girl; god; gods; good; hair; hand; head; headman; hindu; home; house; husband; india; language; law; leaves; left; life; long; madras; malabar; male; manual; mark; marriage; means; members; milk; money; morning; mother; mysore; names; neck; new; north; number; occasion; oriya; pair; pandal; people; person; place; pollution; pot; pots; present; priest; procession; relations; report; rice; right; round; section; sept; set; siva; small; son; south; southern; stone; sub; sun; taking; tamil |; telugu; temple; thou; thread; time; title; tree; tribes; tulu; turmeric; vessel; village; vishnu; water; white; widow; wife; women; work; worship; years; | =; | canarese; | | cache: 42991.txt plain text: 42991.txt item: #4 of 10 id: 42992 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 date: None words: 151270 flesch: 72 summary: The Chakkiliyans beat the tom-tom for Kammalans, Pallis and Kaikolans, and for other castes if desired to do so. During the seventh month of pregnancy, the ceremony of puli kuti, or tamarind juice drinking, is performed as among other castes. keywords: + =; = +; = =; account; betel; black; body; brahmans; brass; bride; bridegroom; brother; canara; cases; caste; cattle; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chenchus; chief; children; class; classes; cloth; cochin; cocoanut; community; connection; copper; country; couple; cow; custom; cut; dancing; dasaris; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deity; district; division; european; exogamous; families; family; father; feast; feet; female; festival; fire; flowers; following; follows; food; forest; form; girl; god; goddess; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; headman; hindu; holeyas; home; house; husband; hut; india; irulas; jews; king; law; leaf; leaves; left; life; little; madras; malabar; man; manual; marriage; meaning; means; members; milk; money; mother; mysore; names; native; near; neck; north; note; number; occupation; oil; oriya; paddy; parents; party; people; person; piece; place; pollution; pot; present; priest; puberty; pulayas; report; return; rice; right; round; rupees; second; section; sept; set; son; south; state; stone; sub; tali; tamil; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; toddy; travancore; tree; turmeric; village; vizagapatam; water; way; white; widow; wife; women; work; worship; years; | =; | | cache: 42992.txt plain text: 42992.txt item: #5 of 10 id: 42993 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 date: None words: 153426 flesch: 71 summary: They are tattooed, and tattooing members of other castes is one of their occupations, which include the following:-- Katukuttu, or boring the lobes of the ears. Though in the presence of other castes the Kakkalans speak Malayalam, they have a peculiar language which is used among themselves, and is not understood by others. keywords: = =; account; ashes; bamboo; barber; betel; body; brahmans; brass; bride; bridegroom; brother; caste; cattle; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; child; children; class; classes; cloth; community; connection; corpse; country; cow; custom; cut; dancing; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deity; descendants; district; division; exogamous; family; father; feast; feet; female; fire; flowers; following; food; form; ganjam; gazetteer; girl; god; goddess; gods; gold; good; government; hair; hand; head; headman; home; house; husband; hut; india; kallans; kammalans; kaniyans; kapus; khonds; king; komatis; koravas; land; law; leaf; leaves; left; life; little; live; madras; madura; malabar; man; manual; marriage; means; members; milk; money; mother; names; neck; new; north; number; parents; parts; people; person; place; pot; present; priest; relations; report; return; rice; right; round; rule; sacred; sacrifice; section; sept; set; siva; son; sons; south; spot; state; stone; story; sub; tali; tamil; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; travancore; tree; turmeric; village; vizagapatam; water; way; wife; women; work; worship; years cache: 42993.txt plain text: 42993.txt item: #6 of 10 id: 42994 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7 date: None words: 154982 flesch: 72 summary: There are also local Mathangis in other villages, but they are all said to be subordinate to the Tudimilla woman, who is the high Pontiff of the institution. Apparently the idea is that, if they make a noise or display a blaze of lights, they will attract the evil spirits, who will swoop down on them and do them some injury, though in other villages it is supposed that a great deal of noise and flourishing of sticks will keep the evil spirits at bay. keywords: = =; account; animal; arcot; basava; bellary; betel; blood; body; brahmans; brass; bride; bridegroom; cases; caste; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; children; class; classes; cloth; cocoanut; community; connection; corpse; country; couple; cut; dance; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deity; district; division; drink; earth; end; exogamous; families; family; father; feast; feet; female; festival; fire; flesh; following; follows; food; form; girl; goddess; gods; good; grain; grave; hair; hand; head; headman; hill; hindu; home; house; husband; image; jungle; kotas; kurumbas; large; law; leaf; leaves; left; life; lingayats; little; madigas; madras; malabar; malaialis; malas; male; man; manual; mappillas; marriage; means; members; milk; mother; mysore; neck; new; north; note; number; occasion; outside; party; people; piece; place; pot; pots; present; priest; procession; pujari; red; report; return; rice; right; round; second; sept; set; sheep; siva; son; south; stone; sub; tali; tamil; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; travancore; tree; turmeric; village; water; way; widow; wife; women; wood; work; worship; years cache: 42994.txt plain text: 42994.txt item: #7 of 10 id: 42995 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 date: None words: 148304 flesch: 71 summary: Marans may be divided into two main divisions, viz., Marans who called themselves Marars in North Travancore, and who now hesitate to assist other castes in the performance of their funeral rites; and Marans who do not convert their caste designation into an honorific plural, and act as priests for other castes. The number of sub-divisions returned by the rest is no less than 305, of which the majority are the names of other castes. keywords: = =; account; bathe; betel; body; brahmans; bride; bridegroom; brother; caste; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; child; children; class; cloth; cocoanut; connection; corpse; country; couple; custom; daughter; day; days; dead; death; deceased; district; division; east; end; exogamous; families; family; father; female; festival; fire; fish; flowers; following; follows; food; form; girl; god; goddess; gold; good; grass; hair; hand; having; head; home; house; husband; india; kind; king; lamp; land; law; leaf; leaves; left; life; madras; madura; malabar; male; man; marriage; marry; meaning; means; members; milk; money; month; morning; mother; nambutiri; names; nayars; near; neck; north; note; number; occasion; offerings; oil; ordinary; pandal; people; person; piece; place; pollution; pot; present; priest; procession; pyre; relations; report; return; rice; right; round; rule; rupees; sept; set; silver; siva; son; south; stone; sub; tali; tamil; taravad; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; travancore; tree; tribe; turmeric; vessel; village; water; way; wear; wife; women; word; work; worship; years cache: 42995.txt plain text: 42995.txt item: #8 of 10 id: 42996 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 date: None words: 138113 flesch: 70 summary: But the termination 'Odi' is found in other caste titles such as Adiyodi and Vallodi, and the definition is obviously fanciful, while it does not explain the meaning of Pishar. But, by other castes, they are nicknamed Kumalam Brahmans. keywords: account; ancestors; arcot; bamboo; betel; bishop; body; brahmans; bride; bridegroom; brother; burning; cases; caste; census; century; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; children; christians; church; claim; class; classes; cloth; community; corpse; country; couple; custom; day; days; dead; death; deity; descendants; district; division; exogamous; family; father; feast; feet; female; fire; fish; flowers; following; food; form; gazetteer; girl; god; goddess; good; government; hand; head; headman; hill; house; husband; india; king; kshatriyas; land; leaf; leaves; left; liquor; madras; madura; malabar; man; manual; marriage; meaning; means; members; milk; mother; names; native; near; neck; north; note; number; offerings; origin; oriya; pallis; pandal; paraiyans; paravas; parts; people; person; place; position; pot; pots; present; priests; report; rice; right; round; sacred; sacrifice; savaras; section; sept; set; siva; small; son; south; stone; sub; synonym; syrians; tali; tamil; telugu; temple; thomas; thread; time; tinnevelly; title; toddy; travancore; tree; village; water; way; weavers; weaving; wife; women; word; work; worship; years cache: 42996.txt plain text: 42996.txt item: #9 of 10 id: 42997 author: Thurston, Edgar title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 date: None words: 133882 flesch: 73 summary: He is a man of importance, not only in many affairs within his own caste, but also in those of other castes. They are simply a criminal community, into which outsiders are admitted, who give their women in marriage outside the caste, and who adopt children of other castes. keywords: betel; body; boy; brahmans; bridegroom; buffaloes; caste; census; ceremonies; ceremony; chief; child; children; classes; cloth; cocoanut; connection; corpse; country; custom; cut; day; days; dead; death; deceased; deity; district; division; earth; exogamous; family; father; feet; female; fire; following; food; form; funeral; girl; god; goddess; gold; good; government; great; hair; hand; head; house; husband; hut; king; lamp; land; leaf; leaves; left; long; madras; madura; malabar; man; manual; marriage; members; middle; milk; money; mother; nayars; near; neck; north; number; oil; origin; paddy; pandal; party; people; perform; person; place; pollution; pot; pots; present; priests; relations; report; return; rice; right; round; salt; section; sept; set; sister; siva; son; south; stone; sub; synonym; tali; tamil; tandan; telugu; temple; thread; time; title; tiyan; todas; toddy; travancore; tree; uncle; vellalas; village; water; wear; white; wife; women; work; worship; yanadis; year cache: 42997.txt plain text: 42997.txt item: #10 of 10 id: 961 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Glinda of Oz In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril by the Sorcery of Glinda the Good date: None words: 40594 flesch: 84 summary: Before all the concourse of people Princess Ozma made a speech from a porch of the palace and demanded that they recognize her as their lawful Ruler and promise to obey the laws of the Land of Oz. The eyes, as she calmly examined Ozma and Dorothy, had a suspicious and unfriendly look in them, but she said quietly: I know who you are, for I have consulted my Magic Oracle, which told me that one calls herself Princess Ozma, the Ruler of all the Land of Oz, and the other is Princess Dorothy of Oz, who came from a country called Kansas. keywords: adepts; boat; coo; dic; dome; dorothy; ervic; fishes; flatheads; glinda; island; lake; magic; ozma; people; queen; skeezers; sorceress; water; way; wizard cache: 961.txt plain text: 961.txt