Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

by Edgar Thurston

[8] Indian Patriot, 13th January, 1908.

[9] Elayads, Ilayatus, or Nambiyatiris, are priests at most of the snake groves on the west coast.

[10] Calcutta Review, July, 1901, cxiii. 21.

[11] “Malabar and its Folk,” Madras, 2nd ed., 150.

[12] Madras Standard, 2nd June, 1903.

[13] “Gazetteer of Malabar,” 1908, i. 112.

[14] See “Men and Women of India,” February, 1906.

[15] “The Cochin Tribes and Castes,” 1909, i. 153–4.

[16] “Malabar and its Folk,” Madras, 2nd ed., 147–8.

[17] Vol. i. 105.