This is a charm for sowing dissension between husband and wife (pĕmbĕnchi):
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Make two of the wax figures in the ordinary way, but taking care that one
resembles the husband and the other the wife. Sit down with your legs stretched
out before you, and hold the figures face to face while you repeat the charm
thrice, and at the end of each repetition breathe upon their heads. Then lay the
man upon the ground on your right side close to your thigh, but looking away
from it; and the woman at the side of the left thigh in a similar position, so that
they both look away from each other. Then burn incense and recite the same
charm twenty-two times over the man and twenty-two times over the woman.
Now put them back to back, and wrap them up in seven thicknesses of the leaves
of tukas,^260 and tie them round with thread of seven colours wrapped seven
times round them, repeat the charm and bury them. Dig them up after seven days
and see if they are still there. If you find them the charm has failed, but if not, it
will work, and they will assuredly be divorced. The charm runs as follows:—
“’Ndit marangan ’ndit!
Angkau Fatimah kambing,
Si Muhammad harimau Allah;
Kalau Fatimah tĕntangkan Muhammad,
Sapĕrti kambing tĕntang harimau.
Muhammad sabĕnar-bĕnar hulubalang,
Harimau Allah di-atas dunia.
Dĕngan bĕrkat” d. s. b.Which, so far as it is intelligible, appears to mean:—
. . . . . . . . . .
“Thou, Fatimah, art a goat;
Muhammad is God’s tiger.
If Fatimah is face to face with Muhammad,
She will be as a goat facing a tiger.
Muhammad in very truth is the Chief,
The Tiger of God upon earth.
By the grace of,” etc.
The following is a clear example of soul abduction without contact:—