Note 53 — Chapter VI · THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.
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(1) A sword, (2) iron,53 (3) a woollen blanket, (4) fire, (5) a coin in the funeral pyre, (6) a nail of a tiger, (7) a blue thread, (8) the red lead offered to the god Hanumān, (9) a lime consecrated with incantations, (10) five kinds of cotton thread worn round the elbow,54 (11) blood, (12) corn, (13) frankincense, (14) salt, (15) water, (16) leather, (17) an amulet of iron procured from a well polluted by the death of some one in its water,55 (18) a garland, the beads of which are made of the wood of the Ekal ber (Zizyphus jujuba), (19) the sacred thread worn by Brāhmans,56 (20) iron nails extracted from a wheel of a cart used for carrying fuel for cremation,57 (21) human blood,58 (22) a costly jewel.