Vol. XI, Nos. 7 & 8.] N. I. Folk-Medicine for Hydrophobia. 225 
[NV.S.] 
is preserved and the patient abstains from the eating of this 
variety of plaintain, the effects of the bite are war 
e € now to consider whether there is any other 
Popular cure for hydrophobia wherein neither any mantrams are 
recited by the village ojha, nor is the patient called upon to 
partake of any ‘‘nostrum’’ or even charmed water r. W. 
Crooke has recorded that there is one such method of cure 
followed in Northern India, wherein the patient suffering from 
the effects of the bite of mad dogs and jackals has to look 
down seven wells.” 
im- 
portant part in all the methods, described above, for the treat- 
i h 
g eber-coms and must be taken before the twenty-first day. 
‘ly there must be some occult influence dormant in these 
tumbers, 
inp how give below the text of the third cure-charm, namely, 
for €xorcising away the venom of the scorpion-sting :— 
No. III. 
Te % fra cemetat A | 
l. ar & 
2. Sit fefer fafa = 1 
3. sit fete fete fate = | 
Jala Aoki at Saebeabe iie. 6 8 Wee 
t y . 
189) Tribes and Castes of Bengal. By H.H. Risley. 2 vols. Calcutta: 
> Jol L, page 367. 4 
India Be reduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern 
" “Y W. Crooke. Allahabad : 1894. page 28. 
