This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency and the Native States of Travancore and Cochin In my Ethnographic Notes in Southern India 1906 I stated that the confused chapter devoted to omens animal superstitions evil eye charms sorcery etc was a mere outline sketch of a group of subjects which if worked up would furnish material for a volume This chapter has now bee...