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APPENDIX. 
(1) Forx-Lore. 
It is a general belief in the hills that on these two days ddgs, or 
witches, who know magic, wan i 
beautiful thing that comes before their 
danger, the Ditiwat or a Brahman gives th 
some rice or some mustard seed, pronouncing the 
people either 
following 
ri— 
Rakkh Ram, rakkh déb, rakkh shish, rakkh Mhésh, rakkh 
4 rakkh chhabhay, rakkh rakkh 
mundro, 
kheché khlainé rachha kara, pasha basetri, rachhaé karai, mat 
: ‘le bholé ri rachha karai, thaur thai di 
rachha karai, sarb rachhé karat, dagi bhito khe lohé ra bar 
ai, dagi bhite satwe 
banai, wAiisi chaudashi lohé ré bar ban 
Shraliyé, Dhahdiya, 
Protect 0 Ram, protect O God, protect O Vishni, protect O 
Shib, protect O wind, protect O waters, protect O tenderness, 
protect from fear, protect, protect O all you the plants, protect 
protect O deity Klainu, you are the protector, O Sip deity, O 
Shrali deity, O Korgan deity, O goddess, protect, as long as 
ied, so long the protection 
uttered by me will not fail, the protection of Brahma may 
protect house, door, land, earth, the crops, the farmyard, the 
cattle and their herds, the bees, the milk-store, the simple- 
minded children, the rooms and the places, this protection may 
or the bitches and ghos 
ns 
protect O Shrali deity, O Klainu deity, i 
deity, O Korgan deity, O Goddess, protect all things well. 
