“Take a lime branch which has seven limes on a single stalk, and suspend it from
the top of your mosquito-curtain on three successive nights. When you suspend
it recite the charm already given^262 (beginning ‘Om! shout it again and
again!’).”
The following ceremony is one in which the soul of another person is abducted
without any direct contact between the soul-receptacle, which in this case is a
head-cloth, and the soul-owner. The directions are as follows:—
“Go out on the fourteenth night of the lunar month (full moon) and two
successive nights; seat yourself on a male ant-hill (busut jantan) facing the
moon, burn incense, and repeat the charm:—
“I bring you a (betel-) leaf to chew,
Dab the lime on to it, Prince Ferocious,
For Somebody, Prince Distraction’s daughter, to chew.
Somebody at sunrise be distraught for love of me,
Somebody at sunset be distraught for love of me.
As you remember your parents, remember me,
As you remember your house and house-ladder, remember me.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
When thunder rumbles, remember me,
When wind whistles, remember me,
When the heavens rain, remember me,
When cocks crow, remember me,
When the dial-bird tells its tales, remember me,
When you look up at the sun, remember me,
When you look up at the moon, remember me,
For in that self-same moon I am there.
Cluck! cluck! soul of Somebody come hither to me,
I do not mean to let you have my soul,
Let your soul come hither to mine.”Here wave the end of your head-cloth (puncha detar) in the direction of the
moon seven times every night for three successive nights. Then take the turban