EXORCISING GHOSTS. 



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in every case. 'O! Glorious result! Sarla mangalam ! All happi- 



ness 



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The ashes of this burned paper are carefully collected in a plate, 

 and are then mixed with clay to form one or more 

 maSr^om "tlS^a'S Hii"iature Chaityas named Sa-tschha. One of these 

 is retained for the household altar, and the rest 

 are carried to any hill near at hand where they are deposited under 

 a i^rojecting ledge of a rock, to shelter them from the disintegrating 

 rain. 



On the burning of this paper the lay figure of the deceased is 

 dismantled, and the clothes are presented to the lamas, who carry 

 them off and sell them to any purchasers a^^ailable and appropriate 



the proceeds. 

 After the 

 honour of 



in 



apse of one year from death it is usual to give a feast 

 the deceased and to have repeated the sman-hla service 



of the Medical Buddhas. On the conclusion of this the widow or 



widower is tlien free to re-marry. 



To Exorcise Ghosts. 



A ghost returns and gives trouble either on account of its inherent 



wickedness, or if the ghost be that of a rich man, it 



A ghost IS always may come to see how his jiroperty is being disclosed 



of. In either case its presence is noxious. It 



makes its presence felt in dreams or by making some individual 



delirious or temporarily insane. 



Such a ghost is disposed of by being burned. For this purpose 



a very large gathering of lamas is necessary, not 



How exorcised. j^^^ ^^^^ ^j^^^^ ^^^ ^j^^ service of "byin sreg.s," or 



"burnt offering," is done. On a platform of mud and stone outside 

 the house is made, with the usual rites, a magic circle or " kyil-Ak/ior," 

 and inside this is drawn a triangle 

 named " hung-hung," as in the 

 diagram here annexed Small sticks 

 are then laid along the outline of 

 the triangle, one piled above the 

 other, so as to make a hollow three- 

 sided pp-amid, and around this are 

 piled up fragments of every avail- 

 able kind of food, stone, tree-twigs, 

 leaves, poison, bits of dress, money, 

 &c., to the number of over 100 



sorts. Then oil is poured over the mass, and the pile set on fire. 

 During its combustion additional fragments of the miscellaneous 



Kyil-hhor 



hung hung 



