Note 56 — Chapter III · DISEASE DEITIES.
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In the case of such diseases as movā kharavā or the like, there is a practice of burying a plough near one’s gates, which is afterwards covered with dust gathered from three streets and is worshiped with a branch of a tree, a plate of iron and red lead. This ceremony has to be performed either on a Sunday or a Tuesday, and the man who performs it has to remain naked at the time.56