168 OCCASIONAL NOTES. 
written characters ; at the top there is a bell with a tongue to 
it to attract the Co-Hon. On either side are invocations to the 
Buddhas, the good genii, and the priests, preceded occasionally | 
by the well-known formula Nam-mo A-pi-pa PHAT. 
Below are representations of fine clothes, different domes- 
‘tic utensils, embroidered robes with Putec inscribed on them 
mandarins’ boots, strings of different kinds of money with 
THAi-Binu (eternal peace) on them, and a variety of other 
combinations—everything, in fact, that an indigent devil: 
could require. ‘lhe imvocations at the top vary. In some of 
them they run, “Oh, all ye Parag (Buddhas) who live for aye 
in the ten places. List, ye os all-powerful.’? Or again, — 
““Hearken, all ye saints, all-bicssed, all-pov rerful, ye- who are 
like unto fire pure and SAaehioas orant, in your mercy, to for- 
saken spirits who Baye sutered foo the three evils, entrance 
into the divine abode. 
On the first and fifteenth of the month such papers of sup- 
ples, pecuniary and personal, are burnt not only at the ances- 
tral altars and on the threshold of the houses, but upon special 
altars. erected im ney places to the Co-Hon. While the 
papers are burning, the head of the family prostrates himself, 
and afterwards scatters broadcast on the roof of his cottage 
somewhat more substantial, but still:scanty, offerings of rice 
and bananas. These are of course to De the Co-non from 
coming inside, an occurrence which the most hospitable good- 
man would view with horror. 
On the fifteenth day of the first, seventh, and tenth 
months, more particularly of the seve nth, there are almost 
niversal offermgs to these troublesome Co-n0n. They are 
ealled Lu Puar-LtOne—distributions of food. 
lt is curious to watch the people come out of their houses” 
just after dark. The father of the house calls out, “ Spirit 
who hast a name, but no title; spirits who have ti ites but no- 
human name; spirits of miner al nature, crowd hither and eat 
my offering.’ 7 | 
Then he turns to the four points of the compa iss, one after. 
the other, commencing with fn west, throws towards each of 
them a handful of salt and rice mixed, and burns a little of 
