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Definition of Godlings
1. godling [n] - See also: godling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Godlings
Literary usage of Godlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India by William Crooke (1894)
"Their inferiority in rank to the greater gods is marked in their title. They are
called Devata or " godlings," not " gods." These godlings have been ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"Beside the beneficent godlings or ghosts there exists a far greater number of
maleficent beings who are either divinities or ..."
3. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1900)
"I did not include Mr. Stieglitz among the godlings. He is saved this distinction
by the undoubted excellence of his photographic work. ..."
4. The North-Western Provinces of India: Their History, Ethnology, and by William Crooke (1897)
"We have, to begin with, a small congregation, who worship various caste, tribal
or ancestral godlings, one of the chief of whom is Nathu Kahar, ..."
5. The Popular Religion and Folk-lore of Northern India by William Crooke (1896)
"NEXT to these deities which have been classed as the godlings of nature, ...
The number of these godlings is immense, and their functions and attributes so ..."
6. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"A careful study of the instances in which beings endowed with immortality, ie
ghosts and spirits on the one hand, and gods, godlings, and warriors (birs) on ..."
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