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Mindok plays a three-stringed viol (r^hab) ; there are 

 also two other musicians— the orangpalu hatil, who beats 

 a brass bowl with two pieces of bamboo, and the orang 

 palu redap, a drummer, who slaps the goat-skin head of 

 his drum with his right hand and strums with his left 

 as he supports the hollow end of the drum on his knee. 

 The To* Mindok sits facing west exactly underneath the 

 plate which contains the honorarium intended for the 

 BomoT Pit^ ; the drummer sits on his right and the 

 other musician on his left. The following things are 

 placed near the band for use during the performance i 

 a plate of bananas of different kinds, a cupful of 

 scented water, a plateful of toasted padi (rice in the 

 husk), a young green coco-nut, a brazier, and a pillow. 

 Later on the fruit will be eaten by the hormr pMri ; 

 sometimes he or she may distribute some of it to the 

 onlookers ; the toasted rice will be thrown about during 

 the performance ; the scented water will be sprinkled 

 over the homor ; the brazier, filled with burning incense 

 (benzoin), will be placed in front of liim when he starts 

 to play, as well as the pillow with a little parched rice 

 upon it. He will drink the water of the coco-nut during 

 the stage of mmn pMri when he becomes possessed of 

 the spirits from time to time. 



When aU is ready the first thing that the hormr pii§n 

 does is to take some of the sacrificial offering {Jieivduri) 

 prepared for the spirits and spread it on top of a banana 

 leaf ; he then sits cross-legged, facing east opposite to 

 the To' Mitidok, and proceeds to recite a very long 

 prayer of invocation. 



The Sacrificial Prayer of the To' Bomor P^xgRi. 



0 God save me from tbe accursed Devil ! 



In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate, 



1 humbly make this sacrificial oSering, 



Yellow rice, a pancake, parched rice, a drop of water, a quid 

 of betel. 



