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78. DRIVING AWAY OF EVIL SPIRITS FROM INFANTS
AND THEIR MOTHERS.
1. A coral bead, leaves of Mahânim (Azaderachta
Indica) tree and mustard seeds should be made into a
paste with clarified butter and burnt as incense. When
the Khoot mantra (No. 38) is muttered one bundred
and eight times over this, the mother of the child will
get rid of the evil spirits.
2. The infant will cease crying, if a piece of the bark Kathanda plant is tied round its neck.
3. If the fluid-extract of the leaves of Aparajitâ bearing white flowers with Mahanim is spiffed up the nostrils, the evil spirits will fly away.
4. The evil spirit will also leave the infant and its mother on the burning of the incense prepared by grind- ing the flesh and ordure of the musk-rat, turmeric, Bel leaves and white mustard seeds.
It stops also the crying of the child.
5. The evil spirits are scared away by, strewing mustard seeds enchanted with the Narasingha mantra (No. 39) by muttering it one hundred and eight times.
79. THE MYSTICAL DIAGRAM.
The jantra should be written on bhurija patra and tied round the neck of the infant. This drives away the evil spirits.
80. CURING OF CHILDREN'S RICKETS.
1. A child is cured of rickets by tieing round his neck the root of Bansatha (Achyranthes Aspera) plant during a lunar eclipse.
2. The same effect is produced if the root of the white swallow-wort dug up on a Sunday in the eighth lunar mansion, is tied to a post of the house.
