Note 72 — Chapter III · DISEASE DEITIES.
Reading edition
If a woman is believed to be possessed by a dākan, she is made to hold a shoe in her teeth and is taken to the village boundary, where the shoe is dropped, and a circle is drawn round it with water from a bowl carried by the party. The holding of the shoe by the teeth signifies a vow on the part of the dākan never to re-enter the person of the exorcised woman.72