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of them should sit: facing the east. Thereafter. the exorciser, 
taking his stand behind the patient’s back, should place a 
well-cleaned bell-metal platter on the patient’s back and recite 
the aforementioned cure-charm three times and each time 
blow upon the patient. If there should be any venom in the 
patient’s body, the platter will so firmly adhere to his body 
that, should any attempt be made to take it off from his back, 
he (the patient) will also fall upon the ground therewith. 
When the venom is thoroughly extracted, the platter will of 
itself fall off the patient’s body. 
Remarks. 
The most noteworthy features of the above-mentioned 
cure-charm are :—(a) The selection of a Sunday morning for the 
Performance of the incantation; (b) the purification by means 
of the bath; (c) the act of sitting with the faces aia 
towards the east ; (d) the application of the bell-metal platter 
to the patient’s back for extracting the venom; (e) the blowing 
y the exorciser upon the patient’s body; and (f) the invoca- 
tion to the goddess Manasa. I shall discuss each of the fore- 
going points seriatim. 
monies. In the k ene 
restless, which I have already published,' the branch of the 
“i glomerata tree is cut very early in the morning of a 
unday, 
; (6) The bath is always resorted to in all purificatory and 
ustration ceremonies, as water is universally believed to reid 
on all evil and malignant influences. The performer of a 
Y, change his clothes, and then. commence his operations. : 
(c) The required practice of sitting with the face turnec 
“tga rites of sun-worship. The worship of the Sun-god is @ 
ving cult in India.’ As will appear from my latter paper, 
iene 518-519 of Vol. IX of the Bombay Anthropological Society's 
? . . , 
Jounal 510-511 of Vol. IX of the Bombay Anthropological Society s 
A Note on the Worship of the Pipal Tree in Bengal,” cone ee 
8 also ; mbay Anthropological Society’s Journal, Vol. X, pp- a 
466-474 - i n ‘*Sun Worship in Bihar” published at pag 
4 of the Calcutta Review for October, 1904. 
