546 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



with my face toward the Sun Land. No one is ever lonely with me. I am very 

 handsome. I shall certainly never become blue. I am covered by the everlasting 

 white house wherever I go. No one is ever lonely with me. Your soul has come 



into the very center of my soul, never to turn away. I take your 



soul. Sge ! 



In the first paragraph there is established a solidarity between cer- 

 tain benevolent spirits and the reciter of the formula, while a pre- 

 liminary statement of the reciter's own attractiveness and charm is 

 made. The second paragraph sets up barriers of avoidance between 

 the woman the reciter desires to conquer and the rest of humanity, 

 with blueness and loneliness assigned as her lot until she recognizes 

 her true interest, which is with the reciter of the charm. In the third 

 paragraph the reciter begins to set up a bond of familiarity between 

 himself and the woman desired in the course of which he names him- 

 self and his clan and reminds her that she has been allotted to his clan 

 in marriage from the beginning of the world, so that he alone of that 

 clan is suitable for her as a mate. In the fourth paragraph he creates 

 a barrier of avoidance between himself and the rest of mankind, com- 

 paring them to noxious and repulsive animals. The fifth paragraph 

 ends the prayer with a reiteration of the assertions of the first para- 

 graph, the charms and attractiveness of the reciter, and concludes with 

 a statement of solidarity by identification with the woman of his 

 choice. 



The use of such a love charm is most frequently at midnight and the 

 man sings his formula in a low voice while facing in the direction of 

 the girl's house. This will make her dream about him and become 

 lonesome for him unless she has fortified herself, on going to bed, with 

 counter spells. The next time she meets him she will be irresistibly 

 drawn toward him and become attached by strong and permanent 

 bonds. 



After he has gained her favors, however, his labors are not over. 

 He must retain her only by constant spells, especially if she be at all 

 attractive on her own account and liable to the magical spells of male 

 rivals. In order to retain a mate a man must affirm the strength of 

 the bonds existing between himself and his wife by a magical formula 

 and anointing her breast, while sleeping, with his spittle. Sometimes, 

 despite his best efforts his mate will be attracted away from him by 

 the superior magic of a rival. To overcome this reverse and recall 

 the woman the man uses a prayer reaffirming his attractiveness and 

 allying himself with the all-powerful grandmother fire. 



The rival who is intent on detaching a man from his mate makes 

 use of negative love formulas. These are of two types: (1) Designed 

 to separate a man and wife preparatory to uniting the wife with him- 

 self through his own attractiveness ; and (2) to render a man unattrac- 

 tive so that no woman will want him. In the case of separating a man 



