I. NATURE POWERS.
1. Give any indications of the connection of the worship of the Deota or minor local deities with the lower races, as, for instance, where the village deity is served by a priest drawn from the lower castes.
2. Give any current beliefs about sun worship. How and at what periodical feasts is the worship conducted and what form of ritual is adopted?
3. Give any customs of moving round temples or sacred objects in the course of the sun in the heavens: cases in which women after childbirth are exposed to the sun: conception believed to be caused by exposure to the rays of the sun: the use of the Swastika as an emblem.
4. Give any legends or customs connected with moon worship: the spots on the surface of the moon: the moon as a healer of disease: the custom of drinking the moon’s rays: any ceremonies at new or full moon.
5. Give any legends and rites connected with eclipses.
6. Similarly for star worship; superstitions connected with the rainbow; the milky way.
7. Rites connected with worship of the earth mother: sacred things not to fall on earth: occasions when people sleep on the earth.
8. Superstitions connected with thunder and lightning.
9. Popular belief regarding earthquakes.
10. Collect instances of and ritual for worship of sacred rivers; springs; waterfalls; water spirits and goblins: prejudice against saving drowning people: ceremonies at digging and dedication of wells: well water as a cure for disease: instances of sacred lakes: palaces under the water.
11. Instances of sacred mountains and legends connected with them: dread of climbing mountains.
12. Name any deities supposed to control the weather, and describe the modes of causing or averting rain, of checking storms and hail.
13. Give instances of any rites in which women alone take part or from which they are excluded: any rites in which the worshipper must be nude.
14. Are there any sacred stones which are believed to influence the rain?
15. Note any superstitions in connection with aerolites and meteors.