This shoot of a creeper is “Prince Invitation,”
This hut is called the Magic Prince,
This decoy is called Prince Distraction.Si Raja Nyila (from sila, mĕnyila) is the name given to the long slender rods with fine hair-like
nooses at the end with which the pigeons are snared and dragged into the hut (vide App. xli.) ↑
51
Vide App. xxxvii. ↑
52
Vide App. xlv. ↑
53
Vide App. xlvii. ↑
54
Ibid. ↑
55
Ibid. Note that the house-door must not face towards the south; if it faces southwards there will
be no luck in the house and everything will go wrong.—J.R.A.S., S.B., No. 30, p. 306. Vide
App. lv. ↑
56
Perhaps a corruption of “Bĕntara,” or Batara, Guru (i.e. Shiva), which is what we should here
expect (vide the charms a few pages farther on). “Mĕntri” usually means “minister.” ↑
57
Vide App. xlvii. ↑
58
As to lucky and unlucky times, vide Chap. VI. pp. 545–550, infra. ↑
59
Cp. pp. 244–245, 248, infra. ↑
60
In a case where no trouble is expected on the part of the earth-spirit, even an egg (as the
“symbol” of a fowl) may be sufficient as a sacrifice. ↑
61
Vide App. l. ↑
62
An alternative method was thus described to me by a magician: Take a white cup, fill it with