kulin

Updated: May 5, 2025

'Among the Kulin of Wimmera River a man became a wizard who, as a boy, had seen his mother's ghost sitting at her grave. These facts prove that a race of savages at the bottom of the scale of culture do take a formal distinction between normal dreams in sleep and waking hallucinations a thing apt to be denied. Thus Mr.

Andrew Lang - The Making of Religion

The redeeming feature of the story the strength of Indian family ties let us not be blind to. Polygamy in India is certainly now hiding itself. A couple of generations ago it was practised wholesale by the kulin brahmans of Bengal. Several middle-aged kulins are known to have had more than 100 wives, and to have spent their lives in a round of visits to their numerous fathers-in-law.

John Morrison - New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century: A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments

In the twelfth century the Catholic Dalmatians and Hungarians in vain tried to suppress it by force. In 1189 Kulin Ban, the ruler of Bosnia, himself turned Bogumil.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle