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TRANSLATION OF No, III. 
Incantation for exorcising away the venom of a scorpion. 
Text. 
1. Om sarah’, I blow. 
2. Om hili mili, I blow. 
3. Om hilt hili.chila', I blow. 
4. I blow to Brahma. 
5. I blow to all the gods. 
Direction. 
While reciting this incantation, blow upon the limb we 
has been stung by a scorpion. 
Remarks. 
Modern ethno-psychological researches have shown i 
the object of the exorciser’s blowing or spitting upo 
“He (the aie tas ‘works his cures in all prob i 
by means of hypnotic suggestion and magnetism, 
by the former 1 smoke He ait take quantities § 
snuff and sundry intoxicating drugs ill dance and sing 
hi 
struments, chief of which is the gourd rattle, until he is eek 
into a kind of ecstacy, in which he has all kinds of hale 
tions. This is followed by a condition of com lete ines 
tion, in which he sees all sorts of similar illusory pict 
ese he retails with all kinds of additions and e™@ this 
when he awakes. And whatever he says he has sé seen iD 
to 
1 The words Om sarah, Om hili mili and Om was ae vi oie 7 
be ne and are, perhaps, used to add to the 
cantation 
