21. On North Indian Charms for Securing Immunity 
from the Virus of Scorpion-Stings. 
By Sarat CHanpra Mirra, M.A., B.L., Pleader, 
Judge’s Court, Chapra. 
In my previous paper on the ‘‘ North Indian Folk-Medicine 
for the Cure of Hydrophobia and Scorpion-Stings,’’ I have 
described the methods current in Northern India for the treat- 
ment of the aforesaid ailments. In this paper, I intend to 
discuss some charms which are popularly supposed to render 
the user thereof either invulnerable to the stings of scorpions 
or immune from their virus. This alleged wonderful endow- 
é-walking which is known in Northern India as the Dam 
Madar (z@erx or yee); and (3) by carrying about one’s 
pressions of the aforementioned exhibition :— 
“It was here, I recollect, that in stirring some stones, we 
found a large black scorpion, which a young Mogol of my 
acquaintance took up and squeezed in his hand, then in the 
hand of my servant, and lastly in mine, without any of us 
being stung. This young cavalier pretended that he had 
charmed the scorpion, as he had charmed many others, with 
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er, M.D., Faculty of Montpellier. Edited by Archiba 
ponstable, ise Wontmnineter: Archibald Constable & Co., 1891. 
age 408. 
