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64 a pit on the north side of the town and spread a swallow-wort leaf under it. Adore it with lamps, frankincense and a wave-offering, and sacrifice a cock. Fold it up in a leaf and bury it. This will effect your object. The charm must be repeated twenty-four times.

[Here follows a spell written in Sanskrit, Telugu and Hindústáni mingled. It is incomplete as well as erroneous and is scarcely intelligible.]

"Vijaya Rám! Bismilla Rahiman keheki bandu, chelmen gaddu," take seven lákhs of land [sic in orig.], nine lákhs of land, ten lákhs of land. Ráma Sanyási is my Teacher!

"Salutation to Brahma and my teacher! son of Çiva, Rudra's vehicle, noble Hanuman, Sañjíva Raya, O Mother Añjaná, [mother of the monkey Hanuman.] I implore thee by the feet of thy mother, 0 Hanuman, to aid me. Hari om, nijayar."

[This is principally written in ancient Sanskrit verse, being an extract from the Sahara Chintámaṇi, a copy of which in my possession (vol. 2 p. 222) has enabled me to decipher some passages otherwise unintelligible on account of the ignorance of the transcriber.]

Sahara Chintámaṇi or Code of Destructive Magic.

The art of logic is chiefly studied in the North, and the religious rites (karmam) in the South: but the art of Magic came from the east and conjuring from Malayáḷam.

"Aum! hrím! hróm, hail, O Goddess of Malayáḷa, who possessest us in a moment! come, come!" On a Sunday let the conjurer obtain the corpse of a girl, and at night let him place it at the foot of a tree: let him place it on the altar. Then let him use the abovesaid spells, one hundred times