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CONTENTS. 



Talismans and Amulet Chaems : — 

 Talismans as curative medicine 

 Amiilets ..... 

 General form of charm 

 Charm against ■wounds 

 Other charms .... 

 Garuda charm against plague and other diseases 

 Scorpion charm against injury by demons 

 Charm against dog-bite . . 

 Chai-m against eagles and birds of prey 

 Charm for killing one's enemy . 

 Other contrivances for the destruction of the enemy 



The Prayeii Flags — 



The luck flags and their origin 



Different Forms of the Luck Flag : — 



The Lung-ta, the Chopen, the Gyal-tsen or "victorious banner," 

 and the vast luck flag ........ 



Worship for the planting of luck flags 



Chapter VI. — Desnonolafry, 



Personal demons, five in number, and designated the male ancestral 

 god, the mother god, the life god, the birth-place god, and the 

 "d4-lha" or enemy god 



Worship according to season 



Country gods, the "Black Father Devil" 



The moimtain god Kang-chhen-dso-nga 



Local gods ..... 



The owner demons of ridges and passes 



Soothsaying and necromancy 



The Lamas and devil worship . 



The Lamas, the prescribers of the devil worship 



The prescriptions based on Chinese astrology 



Nomenclature of the Chinese system of chronolO; 



The conflict of the animals 



Relationships of the elements . 



General nature of the horoscope 



The astrologer's board 



The calculations 



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