220 Journ. of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [July & Aug., 1915, 
and observes a strict fast. He breaks his fast before sunset, 
and partakes of chapatties, milk and sweets only, avoiding all 
kinds of food in the preparation or cooking of which salt has 
been used. He also circumambulates the sun and repeats the 
undermentioned mantra or incantation :— 
atfa atfa a uoifa aapeataatta @ | 
atfa af faasafa yefaa ge ae 1 
Translation. 
The circumambulation of the sun atones for all sins as 
also for all those which are tantamount to the sin of killing 
one hundred Brahmans. 
their faces turned towards the east, ‘‘The gates of the 
sun,’’ as Tennyson has very appropriately called it, both the 
S 
The application of the bell-metal platter to the 
is an example of 
are spirits, from the affected limb of his patient. The Fingo 
medicine-man, in South Africa, sucks the afflicted part of bis 
Among the Paid ea tribes of Australia, the sorcerer pretend 
a 
this paper, the medium em i si 
> n ployed for sucking out the 
from a patient’s body is the bell-metal siabtar wind 
(e) I shall deal with the practice of the exorciser’s blo 
