90 examples of santals in sentences

Dr. Russel, very far from being feeble, is a most able man, who would have made his mark in his profession at home; but he prefers healing the bodies and saving the souls of the Santals in the jungle, to building up a lucrative practice, and even attaining the dizzy height of a knighthood.

" The poor Santals must feel dreadfully cold just now, especially the children, who have hardly anything on.

The Santals are very keen shikaris, and go regularly to hunt armed with bows and arrows and a few guns.

The natives looked sullen and rather suspicious, or is it only that I imagine it because they are so unlike the broad-smiling Santals with their cheerful johar?

The Santals are a Munda tribe, a branch of that aboriginal element which probably entered India from the North East.

The Santals are divided into exogamous septsoriginally twelve in number, and their social observances are complex, e.g. while some relations treat each other with the greatest reserve, between others the utmost freedom of intercourse is allowed.

The Santal Parganas is a district 4800 sq. miles in area, lying about 150 miles north of Calcutta, and was formed into a separate administration after the Santals had risen in rebellion in 1856.

The Santals at present form about one-third of the population.

The stories and legends which are here translated have been collected by the Rev. O. Bodding, D.D. of the Scandinavian Mission to the Santals.

Santali is an agglutinative language of great regularity and complexity but when the Santals come in contact with races speaking an Aryan language it is apt to become corrupted with foreign idioms.

The Santals are great story tellers; the old folk of the village gather the young people round them in the evening and tell them stories, and the men when watching the crops on the threshing floor will often sit up all night telling stories.

I have added as an appendix some stories which I collected among the Hos of Singhbhum, a tribe closely related to the Santals, and which the Asiatic Society of Bengal has kindly permitted me to reprint here.

Formerly Santals were very stupid and much afraid of Hindus; and once a Santal was ploughing at a place where two roads met and a Hindu came along and asked him, in Hindi, where the two roads went to; now the Santal did not understand Hindi and was also deaf and he thought that the Hindu said "These two bullocks are mine,"and he answered "When did I take your bullocks?"

It is a custom among us Santals that husband and wife do not mention each other's names; and even if a husband sometimes mentions his wife's name in a case of urgent necessity, the wife will never speak her husband's; in the same way a man may not mention the name of his younger brother's wife or of his wife's elder sister; women again may not use the name of their younger sister's husband or their husband's elder brother.

This is a story of the old days when the Santals both men and women were very stupid.

Formerly before the Santals came into the country the four taluqs of Sankara, Chiptiam, Sulunga and Dhaka formed the Paharia Raj and the whole country was dense jungle.

Then the Santals came and cleared the jungle, and brought the land under cultivation.

CHAPTER IV Part IV The following stories illustrate the belief in Bongas, i.e. the spirits which the Santals believe to exist everywhere, and to take an active part in human affairs.

And this is the reason why Santals do not clean the hares they kill, but eat them entrails and all.

Santals are very much afraid of burial grounds; for dead men become bongas and bongas eat men.

The sun, the supreme god of the Santals. Champa.

A country in which according to their traditions, the Santals once lived.

The great winter festival of the Santals. Taluq.

They are one of those Kolarian tribes of which the Santals are perhaps the best known.

This is why Santals when going to eat, move the stool that is offered to them before they sit down on it.

90 examples of  santals  in sentences