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SPELLS OR CHARMS. 



Cumari, who influenced the phlegm, in the disease, which afflicted 

 the four great demons, who were the offspring of the great king 

 Carma; the demon Sanni Yakseya, who influenced all the three, 

 the Bile, the Wind, and the Phlegm; the demons, who produce 

 disease by means of the Evil Eye and the Evil Mouth; and the 

 demons and she-demons Takaree, Makaree, Kalaraksee, Yamadoo- 

 tee, Ailakkandi, Mailakkandi, Nanaroopee, Telokadewi, and Oddy 

 Curumbara, these demons and she-demons, who afflict man with 

 98 diseases, and 99 infirmities, and subject him to the risks of 203 

 dangers, all you male and female demons, I bind you first by the 

 power of the god Loka Natha; secondly, I bind you by the power 

 of the glorious god Vishnu; thirdly, I bind you by the power of 

 the worldfamous goddess Pattini; fourthly, I bind you by the power 

 of the god Saman ; fifthly, I bind you by the power of the god 

 Dewol; sixthly, I bind you by the power of the god Canda Cumara; 

 seventhly, I bind you by the power of Andungini Dewatawa; eighthly, 

 I bind you by the power of King Wissamonny himself; ninthly, Ibind 

 you by the power of the Graha gods (the Planet gods) ; tenthly, I 

 bind you by the power of the eight Guardian gods, who are in 

 charge of the eight points of the sky. I bind you all. I bind you 

 .all by the power of all these gods. I do this by the same power 

 which the great Prades Rusia* used. Do, as I do. Stay, where 

 I tell you to stay. Go, where I tell you to go. Eat, burn, destroy, 

 when 1 command you to eat, burn, and destroy. Let this be so." 



The Jeewama of the above — "Put a Cham pica flower, a flower 

 of the iron wood tree, and a stone on a Mai Bulat Tatuwa, placed 

 on a grave, or at the point of junction of three roads, or near a tree, 

 whose bark has a great deal of sap in it. Then place around the 

 Mai Bulat Tatuwa a little blood, a little milk, a few flowers, and 

 some porri^ each kind in a separate leaf. Then put up lights all 

 round; having done this take some resin, and pronounce over it the 



* Prades Rusia was the first man, who followed the profession of a Cattadij^a. 

 | Paddy, as rice in the husk is called here, being put into a vessel and heated 

 over a fire, splits open into large white flakes, which are called porri. 



