HOONIYAN CHARMS. 



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The Jeewama of Sohon Gini Bandenay (No. 13 in the above 

 list) — " Near a tree, the bark of which has much sap in it, draw on 

 the ground two figures representing the man and his wife, with a 

 piece of charcoal obtained from a place where a human corpse had 

 been burned. Write the names of the parties on the breasts of 

 these figures with the same piece of charcoal. Write also on each 

 of the figures the letters a. e. u. Then pronounce the charm over 

 a steel nail, and drive the nail into those parts of the figures which 

 represent the private parts. Pronounce the charm again over 16 

 nails made of Pas lo, and drive them into those parts of the figures 

 which represent the joints. Remove then the earth on which the 

 figures were drawn, and bury it in a grave a few inches below the 

 surface, and make a fire over it with Pas Pengiri (the wood of 

 five kinds of trees the fruit of which is sour to the taste:) Keep 

 up this fire for sometime. For offerings, put on an altar some 

 blood, some Rat Mai flowers, a roasted egg, and some boiled rice, 

 each in a separate leaf. All this must be done on a Sunday. The 

 husband and wife will fall sick, become insane, have paralysis in 

 their legs, quarrel and fight with each other, and die at the end of 

 three months, if remedies are not applied in time. The remedy is 

 this — dig a hole in the ground where a human corpse has been 

 burnt. Throw in it nine kinds of flowers and some boiled rice, 

 each folded in 9 separate leaves. Put on an altar close by 9 leaves 

 containing the juice of Rat Mai flowers, and 9 containing boiled 

 rice, and 8 limes. Repeat then these charms (not given here), and 

 taking the limes to the sick people, cut them, pronouncing over 

 them the seven charms Manama Wettu Alagu. The sick people 

 will recover." 



The Jeewama of Madena Sohon Bandenay (No. 14) — "Draw 

 the figure of a man on a tiger's skin, and the figure of a woman on 

 a deer skin. Write the names of the man and his wife on the 

 breasts of the respective figures. Then put upon the figures a 

 Divi Caduru leaf,* a piece of charcoal obtained from a funeral 



* Divi Caduru is a tree which grows to a considerable height. Its leaves 

 are about a foot long, and two and a half or three inches broad, very thick, 



