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Rh and recite the spell in the elder house, and it shall cause his death within a fortnight.

Procure the bones of a par′aiyan and say the spell over them on a Wednesday, and bury them in the house of your foe: his entire house shall die and he himself shall be left alive.

Form an image with wax in the form of thine enemy: take it in your right hand at night and hold your chain of beads in your left hand. Then burn the image with due rites: and it shall slay your enemy in a fortnight, and he shall sink into hell.

Read over this spell in the presence of the Mothers (i. e., goddesses,) and say I will come when the time approaches. Then when you require their aid recite this spell a thousand times, whereupon the goddess will appear and certainly will do as thou desirest.

Recite it a thousand times in a cemetery and your enemy will perish in a fortnight.

Take a bone from a buryial ground, and recite the spell a thousand times over it, and throw it into your enemy's house; and it shall cause his ruin.

Then form an image of wax, touch it with your hand, recite the spell a thousand times, and burn it with mould procured from a funeral pile, and it shall cause the death of the enemy.

I will next explain the Karnataka process of causing death, invented by A′dinatha; which, O goddess, is infallible if recited in a cemetery.