Folklore of Gujarat

by A.M.T. Jackson and R.E. Emthoven

About The Book:

The great epic like Ramayana and Mahabharata are known to each and every scholars and readers in India but regional Folk epics remain largely unexplored. However in western India especially in Gujarat numerous epics are existed. Gujarat is accumulated with various culture, complex Traditions and rituals etc. The book contains Essays on many aspects of Folklore exhibits the variety and important Gujarat folk rituals and attitudes. Here folks is made mainly on the Nature power, Heroic god lings, Disease deities, The Worship of ancestors and saints, the malevolent dead, the evils Eye and the scaring of ghosts, Tree and Serpent worship, Totemism and fetishism, Animal worship, Witchcraft and General.