Documenting beliefs: goats and dogs on the roof are a bad omen; nest of wasp foretells child birth

Tanjore Gazetteer, compiled by ICS officer F.R. Hemingway, captures the superstitions prevailing among the people of the composite Thanjavur district. He has given a list of people’s faiths, interpretations of dreams, and animals, birds, and human beings considered auspicious and inauspicious. These beliefs still prevail in other parts of the State