ANGAM CHARMS. 



The following is the charm Meela Angam (No. 32): — 

 " Oh Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, may you be adored ! Oh de* 

 mon of blood, receive this human sacrifice, which I make to thee. 

 Accept it instantly. Look at it with thy thousand eyes. Oh 

 Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, may you be adored! Stop ye, Pilliran 

 and Neeiiran. Wissamonny's power is great. There is riot a de- 

 mon, who does not feel his power. Stop thou, v Calnga Pullay! 

 Vishnu is great. His authority prevails over all demons. Stop 

 thou, Elendri Dewi! Stop ye all! I make this sacrifice to you. 

 1 dedicate this human being to you. Blood of a delicious taste, 

 heart, lungs, liver, and. marrow, all delicious, are yours. I deliver 

 him to you. Take charge of him. He is yours. Thou, Eeeri 

 Yaksaniee, look afc him instantly, and take him as an offering ac- 

 ceptable to thee. Take him immediately. Throw him down. 

 Oh Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, adoration be to you! The powers 

 which originated from queen Yasodara, and the powers belonging 

 to Vishnu, as they now prevail at the temple of the Cannibal de- 

 mons, and who once destroyed the prince Wisamatoma— by these 

 powers I deliver this being to thy charge, Oh Siddhi Maha Sohon 

 dewatawa, and to thy charge, thou son of Gajacumbacari. By 

 those powers I command, that he, who crosses this stile before my 

 return hither, be taken charge of by Billey Gopolu Yaksanee. Let 

 the dewatawa [Maha Sohona] take charge of him, as his. Let 

 Billey dewatawa of the South take charge of him, as his. Let Dalla 

 Seyna, chief of demons, take charge of him, as his. Take him. 

 Thou Siddhi Maha Sohon dewatawa, look at him and take him. 

 Throw him down. Throw him. Do it. Let this be so." 



Tiie Jeewarna of the above—" Make a Mai Bulat Tatuwa on a 

 grave, or at a place where three paths meet, and put on it some 

 sandal wood dissolved in water, a few Rat Mai, Idda Mai, and 

 j eao ^~u e flowers, each kind in a separate leaf. Make a Pidayni 

 T^/ /00 /, a* and put upon it a human bone, some porri, a little blood, 



* The difference between a Mai Bulat Tatuwa and a Pidyaai Tatuwa is, that 

 on the former rice and other eatables are not offered, while on the latter they 

 are, with or without fiower3 and perfumes. 



